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: Feature Request: Per-package custom save files? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:11:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <21413.43005.992475.896234@lapdog.roam.corp.google.com> <21416.23354.391473.953888@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403558007 6538 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2014 21:13:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman@google.com (T.V Raman) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 23:13:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WzBYF-0000aF-QI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:13:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzBYF-0006QD-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzBXJ-00051F-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzBX9-0006rm-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:43253) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzBX9-0006rg-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E1E3C060; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B65B1E5B74; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:11:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0778EB4167; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:11:41 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <21416.23354.391473.953888@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:52:10 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172669 Archived-At: > 2. My thought around factoring out custom settings into a > canonical per-package custom-settings file was to achieve the > second goal -- not loading settings for packages you dont use -- That doesn't really sound like a goal to me. More specifically, I'd like to know why you care about loading settings you don't use. IOW, let's imagine we change it so that the settings are only loaded once they're needed. How will you tell the difference? Stefan