From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: library-specific customization files? Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:16:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099181827 18681 80.91.229.6 (31 Oct 2004 00:17:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 31 02:17:02 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 1CO3P4-00077V-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:17:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CO3Wz-00010F-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CO3Wl-0000zQ-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CO3Wk-0000yj-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CO3Wk-0000yd-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.141] (helo=simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CO3Om-0002uX-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([67.71.25.5]) by simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041031001644.MWKZ1580.simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id DC0E934D012; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:50:06 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) 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:29202 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29202 > 4. It would be good for a user to be able to (optionally) save > customizations to separate files that he can easily associate with their > corresponding standard library files. For instance, ps-print customizations > might be saved to custom-ps-print.el, while dired customizations might be > saved to custom-dired.el. All of these user customizations could be placed > in the same directory. They could all be loaded by default. Usually the namespace prefix and the sorting end up separating the various packages in the custom-file already (which is admittedly not the same as a separation into various files, but already shows some amount of structure). I think it would be better to extand the custom-theme support so the user can use some other grouping than just "one per package". In any case I strongly suspect that 99% of those people who might care about the structure of their custom-file can and do write their .emacs by hand instead. > 5. We might also consider automatically creating a single byte-compiled > version of the collection of custom-*.el files (rather than multiple > compiled files - to save load time). Compiling config files is at best pointless. Stefan