* Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable
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@ 2004-10-09 15:43 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14 21:33 ` Dave Love
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2004-10-09 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Apart from the variable needing to be customizable, I think "ssh" is a
better default these days. (I wanted to use ssh.)
It puzzles me that most of the definitions in paths.el are defconst's.
It seems that they should all be defcustom.
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2004-10-09 15:43 ` `remote-shell-program' should be customizable Richard Stallman
@ 2004-10-14 21:33 ` Dave Love
2004-10-16 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dave Love @ 2004-10-14 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It puzzles me that most of the definitions in paths.el are defconst's.
> It seems that they should all be defcustom.
Probably. I think there are several other problems:
* I don't know why paths.el defines file names rather than command
names;
* I think news-path, news-inews-program and the gnus-... variables
should be moved to Gnus files;
* Most of this should be done at runtime, not in paths.el, which is
dumped. There's no reason that rmail-spool-directory should be the
same on the target system as the build system, for instance -- it's
rather random on systems I'm familiar with.
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* Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable
2004-10-14 21:33 ` Dave Love
@ 2004-10-16 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-18 22:16 ` Dave Love
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2004-10-16 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
* Most of this should be done at runtime, not in paths.el, which is
dumped. There's no reason that rmail-spool-directory should be the
same on the target system as the build system, for instance -- it's
rather random on systems I'm familiar with.
That sounds like a good improvement, if it is done right,
so that any settings made by the user are not overriddem once
relevant packages are read.
Want to send patches? However, this may as well wait till after the
current release.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread* Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable
2004-10-16 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2004-10-18 22:16 ` Dave Love
2004-10-19 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dave Love @ 2004-10-18 22:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> * Most of this should be done at runtime, not in paths.el, which is
> dumped. There's no reason that rmail-spool-directory should be the
> same on the target system as the build system, for instance -- it's
> rather random on systems I'm familiar with.
>
> That sounds like a good improvement, if it is done right,
> so that any settings made by the user are not overriddem once
> relevant packages are read.
I'm not sure what you mean. There would just be a defvar or defcustom
in the relevant file, with something similar to what's in paths.el as
default.
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* Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable
2004-10-18 22:16 ` Dave Love
@ 2004-10-19 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-21 17:19 ` Dave Love
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2004-10-19 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
> * Most of this should be done at runtime, not in paths.el, which is
> dumped. There's no reason that rmail-spool-directory should be the
> same on the target system as the build system, for instance -- it's
> rather random on systems I'm familiar with.
>
> That sounds like a good improvement, if it is done right,
> so that any settings made by the user are not overriddem once
> relevant packages are read.
I'm not sure what you mean. There would just be a defvar or defcustom
in the relevant file, with something similar to what's in paths.el as
default.
Ok. If someone would like to make these changes, it is ok?
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