From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Custom Et Al: Build-Up The Underlying Platform was Re: A new user perspective about "Changes for emacs 28" Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:11:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1ca462fa-0f9e-3c18-6386-f43f49388b2f@gmail.com> <20200907180812.5tfylspp7i6vl4o3@Ergus> <94fda087-a61b-356d-4bb4-791907593246@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3204"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicola.manca85@gmail.com, spacibba@aol.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 06:11:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaPb-0000kT-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:11:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55564 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaPa-0006XI-Lt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaP9-00068O-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46224) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaP8-0000pd-Id; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaP7-0003XE-LN; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:11:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (raman@google.com) 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255074 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. ]]] > My recommendation based on some of the present drawbacks I enumerated > might be to split the custom file into per-package customizations plus > an emacs-core piece. THat's an example of a fixed subdivision scheme, one that would be the same for all users. The other alternative I see would be for the user to choose how to subdivide it. I could not tell which one people had in mind. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)