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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A fundamental problem with defcustoms that are lists
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:28:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C303FD.9080600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C2FA14.3070509@gmx.at>

martin rudalics wrote:
>> 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.


Thanks, that is a nice idea. I think it would be good, but not
necessary. Maybe some intermediate thing, something that reminded of
"merge conflicts" could be used instead?




  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-06 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-06 17:34 A fundamental problem with defcustoms that are lists Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 18:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-06 18:59   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 19:56     ` Drew Adams
2008-09-06 20:04       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-06 21:45 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-06 22:28   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-09-07  4:01     ` Stefan Monnier

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