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: Further problem with recent changes to custom-magic-alist. Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:42:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200502150055.j1F0tRZ05963@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109063430 24669 80.91.229.2 (22 Feb 2005 09:10:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 22 10:10:29 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3W3j-0003Om-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:10:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3WKn-0003vV-HR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3Vr4-0004OR-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:57:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3Vr0-0004N3-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:57:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3Vqz-0004M4-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:57:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D3Vcu-0003kI-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D3Vct-00006Z-Q4; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:42:39 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200502150055.j1F0tRZ05963@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:55:27 -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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33720 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33720 You have set this %c and saved it through Customize in your init file. This is too long. It produces lots of ugly continuation lines. It also is inaccurate if custom-file is non-nil. Telling the user the value has been saved in the init file may help users understand what is going on. That is useful. As for the case where custom-file is non-nil, that is comparatively unimportant. Being helpful in the usual case is a higher priority than being accurate when the user has changed things. I thought about replacing "init file" with some other term such as "custom file", so as to be accurate in all cases, but that just isn't common Emacs terminology and it won't be as clear. So I think the best way to shorten this is to delete "through Customize". That too is unfortunate to lose, but better than the other alternatives.