From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: custom-set-variables considered harmful Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:50:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512431449 7053 195.159.176.226 (4 Dec 2017 23:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 23:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 05 00:50:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eM0VR-0001HT-Ep for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:50:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eM0VY-0008Aq-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eM0VR-0008AY-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eM0VQ-0000a5-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:50:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eM0VK-0000Qa-1k; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eM0VJ-0000KC-Ko; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:50:29 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:48:06 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220727 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Based on the feedback, I added a config var to control the use of `setq'. > I also added a backward compatibility hack which makes it so that your > "new style config" will partly work in Emacs<27. Could you please summarize what this will do? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.