From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:23:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <075b01c4d9a4$52799460$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <00bb01c4daee$5eb81350$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200412051733.iB5HXIX13206@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <000001c4db1a$8d3770f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200412060046.iB60kZj15003@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <003e01c4db31$e45a2550$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200412060402.iB6421q15173@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102393773 3017 80.91.229.6 (7 Dec 2004 04:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 04:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, jpw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 05:29:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CbWye-0007K2-00 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:29:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX8R-0006ZV-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:39:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX6q-0005xz-AW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX6n-0005ws-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX6n-0005w0-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CbWwc-0003fQ-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:27:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CbWtL-0001QY-I7; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:23:59 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200412060402.iB6421q15173@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:02:01 -0600 (CST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30791 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30791 If you just set `custom-file' with a setq in the user's init file, the :set and :get functions will not be called when the user's init file is loaded. So you will have to insert calls to named functions in the user's init file that can be updated whenever Custom changes, without need to update the user's init file. I do not follow you here. What calls do you mean? Which functions do you mean? What do you mean by "whenever Custom changes"?