From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:21:30 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200502122121.j1CLLU119488@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200502121845.j1CIj3R19380@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <011001c51146$6b2aff10$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108244571 10944 80.91.229.2 (12 Feb 2005 21:42:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 12 22:42:51 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D052K-0005ed-62 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:42:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D05HW-0007X3-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D05GV-0007LG-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D05GM-0007HA-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:57:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D05GL-0007DL-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:57:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D04jV-0008Ud-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:23:17 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1CLNA9N021965; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:23:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j1CLLU119488; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:21:30 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se In-reply-to: <011001c51146$6b2aff10$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33315 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33315 Lennart Borgman wrote: > Absolutely not. `(setq custom-file "Y")' means that you want Custom to > _write_ to Y. If you want Y to be read you have to load Y. .. > (setq custom-file "Y") > (load custom-file) Is not this a bit of a contradiction? I would not say that the semantic is really clear. I wrote: If you want Y to be your Custom file, write: (setq custom-file "Y") (load custom-file) Note: _If_ you want Y to be your Custom file, write: Who knows what somebody just doing `M-: (setq custom-file "Y")' is actually trying to do? Whether it is going to have any effect or not depends on whether any option is still going to be saved in Custom or not. If you set custom-file through Custom, it is going to have an effect in a reliable way. (Custom is going to write your current saved Customizations into that file, but it is not going to read anything from that file.) Where is the contradiction? Sincerely, Luc.