From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them? Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ocn1fnko.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <9ivdh9awu2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87skccrwgg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258555767 7817 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 14:49:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 15:49:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAlqR-0002PA-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36333 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlqQ-0006QN-VW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlfX-0006bv-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:38:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlfS-0006ZH-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:38:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35876 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlfS-0006Z4-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:43976 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAlfQ-0002rA-Od; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:56 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As4EAJiVA0vO+II8/2dsb2JhbACBTdRnhDsEiVc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,765,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="49593104" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.130.60]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Nov 2009 09:37:56 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7EB19859F; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87skccrwgg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:57:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117176 Archived-At: > So there is "no way back" and removing autoload will cause another > bug report about failures in ~/.emacs that customizes that option. > Then I don't how to fix bugs like bug#4387. In the case of bug#4387, removing the autoload should be pretty safe, but it's very unlikely that someone *modifies* the variable in her .emacs rather than just setting it to some constant value. Stefan