From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: defcustom: changing from defvar - order of execution
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:32:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ll6l62fv.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4674.1115829901.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Not only was this common in standard libraries before this
>> century, but it is still common for personal "libraries" -
>> that is, .emacs and its extensions.
> .emacs and its extensions are not libraries. Extending the meaning of
> libraries to things like .emacs makes the word useless.
> OK. What's a better term?
Who needs a better term. The point is that *libraries* should not do
anything (other than define new feature) when they're loaded and thus, since
.emacs is not a library, this rule of thumb doesn't apply to it.
> - It happens that personal startup files sometimes evolve into multi-user
> libraries, and these sometimes evolve into standard Emacs libraries.
And they have to change between those stages.
Stefan
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2005-05-11 18:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2005-05-11 14:07 ` defcustom: changing from defvar - order of execution Stefan Monnier
2005-05-11 16:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-05-11 16:37 ` Drew Adams
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2005-05-06 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-06 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2005-05-10 16:14 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-05-10 18:32 ` Drew Adams
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2005-05-07 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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2005-05-06 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-06 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2005-05-03 15:50 Drew Adams
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2005-05-04 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-04 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2005-05-04 15:51 ` rgb
2005-05-04 22:49 ` Drew Adams
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