From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: "Arash Esbati" <arash@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Making `eglot-server-programs' a custom variable?
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:29:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwn82ll70.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0427k9i.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:10:49 +0000")
>> I suspect it would not be able to use `with-eval-after-load` because it
>> wouldn't know which file holds/defines that var. But we could make it
>> work for Custom vars, OTOH.
>
> I have the hunch that modifying `add-to-list' along these lines could
> break a lot of subtle programs,
I'd imagine the change would only affect the case where the var is
unbound, i.e. where we currently signal an error. For that reason, it
seems safe enough.
> especially when they use `add-to-list' in place of `push'.
It should be safe enough even for such bad-style cases.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-10 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-09 20:25 Making `eglot-server-programs' a custom variable? Arash Esbati
2022-11-09 20:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-09 22:07 ` Arash Esbati
2022-11-10 17:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-10 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-10 18:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-10 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-11-10 19:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-12 3:47 ` Jim Porter
2022-11-12 5:16 ` chad
2022-11-12 7:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-12 7:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-12 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 8:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-12 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 8:45 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-12 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 9:40 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-12 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 13:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-12 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 0:20 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-13 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 7:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-13 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-15 17:50 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-15 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 13:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-16 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-16 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 17:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-10 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 7:56 ` Tim Cross
2022-11-10 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 9:34 ` Tim Cross
2022-11-10 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 13:59 ` Tim Cross
2022-11-10 9:18 ` Arash Esbati
2022-11-10 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 10:25 ` João Távora
2022-11-10 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 21:45 ` João Távora
2022-11-11 6:12 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-11 9:09 ` João Távora
2022-11-12 2:34 ` Brian Cully via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-12 16:22 ` Michael Albinus
2022-11-11 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 9:12 ` João Távora
2022-11-11 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 14:44 ` Arash Esbati
2022-11-12 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 14:58 ` Arash Esbati
2022-11-10 21:28 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-11-11 10:05 ` Arash Esbati
2022-11-11 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 12:22 ` Arash Esbati
2022-11-11 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 13:26 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-11-11 13:48 ` Arash Esbati
2022-11-11 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 10:15 ` João Távora
2022-11-10 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 12:07 ` João Távora
2022-11-10 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 15:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-10 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 18:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-10 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 15:38 ` João Távora
2022-11-10 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 21:13 ` João Távora
2022-11-10 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-10 15:21 ` João Távora
2022-11-10 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-10 22:10 ` João Távora
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