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: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:54:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y2zuumeg.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <65d93cdd-58df-4562-8497-3552f0636f09@default> <87ftljhthg.fsf@gnus.org> 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="269330"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 31 04:54:19 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 1i3tWt-0017wK-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 04:54:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3tWr-0007I9-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60715) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3tWg-0007Hj-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i3tWc-000881-Gl; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i3tWb-0001U9-3f; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:54:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ftljhthg.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:50:51 +0200) 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:239714 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. ]]] > 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)