From: David Masterson <David.Masterson@synopsys.com>
Subject: Re: default.el and site-start.el
Date: 28 Jun 2003 18:46:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <un0g1y7si.fsf@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ladc35kwb.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu
>>>>> Stefan Monnier writes:
> I don't actually use default.el because it can create surprise when
> the user sets something in his .emacs and it gets overridden by
> default.el.
Users should tend toward 'setq' in their .emacs while admins should
tend toward 'defvar' (or 'defcustom') in default.el. (CMIMW) defvar
doesn't override the value set by setq.
--
David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-29 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-27 9:25 default.el and site-start.el Michael M Mason
2003-06-27 11:42 ` Daniel Jensen
2003-06-27 18:20 ` Michael M Mason
2003-06-27 19:45 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-27 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-29 1:46 ` David Masterson [this message]
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