From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Settings Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:22:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y2zuumeg.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <65d93cdd-58df-4562-8497-3552f0636f09@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="260964"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 01:23:02 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i2knl-0015hv-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 01:23:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59680 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2knj-000478-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49942) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2kna-000471-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2knZ-00027K-Ph; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:22:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i2knY-0008T0-Ub; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:22:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <65d93cdd-58df-4562-8497-3552f0636f09@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:20:06 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:239634 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. ]]] > Whatever might be figured out, IMO it needs to be possible > for a user to control when `custom-file' (its value) gets > loaded. My point is that maybe we don't want to process all custom definitions in one single batch. If we can identify specific needs with regard to particular custom variables, we could do something more sophisticated, and MAYBE we could make that work right for every user without requiring that the user figure out a solution that works right for all of them. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)