From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: External programs and resources Date: 02 Sep 2004 14:10:05 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <002a01c49072$0ca8b130$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094148731 23843 80.91.224.253 (2 Sep 2004 18:12:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 20:11:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2w3o-0008RG-00 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:11:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2w8n-0004IK-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2w8g-0004IE-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2w8f-0004I2-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2w8f-0004Hs-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2w3a-0002YU-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 988B7B30298; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:10:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 373908CA23; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:10:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <002a01c49072$0ca8b130$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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=0, requis 5) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26725 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26725 > I have not been able to find a common entrypoint for external resources from > Emacs. I would for example appreciate if there was only one place where the > path to a program like Ghostview was entered. > I would suggest that customization of things like this should be in one or > several lisp modules that could be used by other modules. > My apologies if this has already been done or discussed before. It might be a good idea, but since packages are developed separately by manny people who don't know each other, it's not always so easy (especially because you also still want to be able to specify different values sometimes, because you might sometimes want to use one version of `gv' for one package and another for some other package). In the short term, the best we can do is find those redundant customizations and unify them. Which ones were you thinking of? Stefan