From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Customize buttons thatchangeuser'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:25:36 -0800 Message-ID: References: <200502130413.j1D4Din19798@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108410015 6712 80.91.229.6 (14 Feb 2005 19:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 20:40:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D0m4m-0001YC-00 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:40:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mKN-0006Xg-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:56:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mIQ-00062I-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mIC-0005un-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mI8-0005q2-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:53:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.229] (helo=agminet02.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D0m1J-0004K3-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet02.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j1EJ80KO015788; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:36:21 -0800 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.50]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j1E2PcCu031203; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:28:28 -0800 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j1E2PcdG014058; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:25:38 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-82-35.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.82.35]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id j1E2PbiY014027 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:25:37 -0700 Original-To: "Luc Teirlinck" , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: <200502130413.j1D4Din19798@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33413 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33413 But here we are discussing what happens if you change custom-file in an already running Emacs session, after a custom-file has already been loaded. In that situation loading that _second_ Custom file (which presumably is an empty file to be written into by the current Emacs) does not make a lot of sense. The main type of situation in which one might actually want to change custom-file in a running Emacs is the following. I believe that Kim started off this change-custom-file thread, in the context of the question of S=>F. He mentioned that it might be useful to have S=>F instead of only S=>C,F, in order to let you retrieve values from a second custom file without loading that second file. I think the thread has diverged from Kim's point, which is OK, but I'm not sure that everyone is following it clearly.