From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rogue option init-file-user Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:01:54 +0100 Message-ID: <43BFC9D2.4090101@student.lu.se> References: <200601070348.k073mcR00400@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136644487 11836 80.91.229.2 (7 Jan 2006 14:34:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 07 15:34:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvF9P-0007oH-HJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:34:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvFBF-0005n5-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:36:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EvEfp-0004KD-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EvEfl-0004DN-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:03:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvEfl-0004CF-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EvEhg-0006y4-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43BA90DD000FB08B; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:01:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200601070348.k073mcR00400@raven.dms.auburn.edu> 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:48818 Archived-At: Luc Teirlinck wrote: >init-file-user is usually rogue: > > init-file-user: Hide Value Value Menu String: > State: CHANGED outside Customize; operating on it here may be unreliable. > >Before worrying what to do about that, the first thing to decide is >whether this really should be defined with defcustom. I believe that >it should be defined with defvar. It seems to me that to change this >variable in a way that actually works, the user should use a command >line option such as -q or -u. Setting or saving it through Custom >appears to make little sense. > >Sincerely, > >Luc. > > Beside the above problem the value on w32 seems strange. I get the value "" with CVS Emacs from 2006-01-06 after .emacs have been read.