From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A fundamental problem with defcustoms that are lists Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:45:56 +0200 Message-ID: <48C2FA14.3070509@gmx.at> References: <48C2BF2F.9040700@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220737727 10203 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 21:48:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 23:49:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kc5f3-0004Fx-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:49:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc5e3-0001zG-Jl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc5dn-0001tb-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc5dl-0001sf-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41651 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc5dl-0001sK-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41466) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc5dj-0004sF-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Sep 2008 21:48:17 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-54-15.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.54.15]) [62.47.54.15] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 06 Sep 2008 23:48:17 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+K7XlOtJeKKeyEHQ+GZ5r/NDUMm/Brdt56TYTTa3 D1z96b9yK0vPPZ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <48C2BF2F.9040700@gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.85 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:103611 Archived-At: > If you customize such an option and the default values are changed you > will not notice because when your setting is used Emacs never sees the > changes in default. > > This mean that any enhancements or bug corrections to the default will > never be used. This problem is comparable to what happens when you change a file under version control and subsequently update from the repository. You have to decide whether and how to merge your changes with those from the repository. A similar merge mechanism would be needed for customize. martin