From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Settings
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:54:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1i3tWb-0001U9-3f@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftljhthg.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:50:51 +0200)
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> It's possible, but I think that sounds... very ambitious. But I could
> see the case for saying something general like "customising hook
> variables should happen before loading .emacs, because that will make
> add-hook work", but even that would be controversial. (Customising a
> hook sets the variable to a specific value; it doesn't add functions.)'
I think that single change would help some users.
A collection of customizations can be overconstrained so that no time
is a good time to install them all. If we can move some variables
automatically to the right time for them, that may make it possible to
find a good point to load the rest of the customizations.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-31 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 21:52 Settings Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 23:11 ` Settings Drew Adams
2019-08-25 15:45 ` Settings Stefan Monnier
2019-08-25 16:30 ` Settings Drew Adams
2019-08-25 18:21 ` Settings Stefan Monnier
2019-08-26 4:18 ` Settings Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-26 23:13 ` Settings Richard Stallman
2019-08-26 23:20 ` Settings Drew Adams
2019-08-27 23:22 ` Settings Richard Stallman
2019-08-30 9:50 ` Settings Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-31 2:54 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-08-27 6:20 ` Settings Eli Zaretskii
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