From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: grischka <grishka@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The window-pub branch
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:40:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEA3A75.50100@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpqtywhfb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> To me (as a user) the main problem is that the user needs to be able to
> easily override such settings. So a package changing
> display-buffer-names after reading the .emacs is not a good idea.
With `display-buffer-names' a user can set the `override' specifier so
this is no problem. What's difficult is how to merge back or dismiss a
value changed by the application. Consider the following scenario:
(1) The user customizes and saves the value of an option back to her
.emacs.
(2) The application adds or changes an entry of the option and, assisted
by some extraordinary magic, manages to merge the new value into the
option without breaking anything.
(3) The user customizes the option again, changing or removing the
application's entry.
At this time the magic from step (2) would have to decide how to _not_
merge the entry into the option again. All this with users switching
back and forth between different .emacs files, refusing to work with the
standard customization interface, testing different Emacs versions ...
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-22 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-18 17:54 The window-pub branch grischka
2010-11-18 18:48 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-18 21:29 ` grischka
2010-11-19 8:00 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-19 13:38 ` grischka
2010-11-19 14:44 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-19 16:45 ` grischka
2010-11-20 9:19 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-20 14:43 ` grischka
2010-11-20 18:03 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-20 21:15 ` grischka
2010-11-21 9:49 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-21 13:34 ` grischka
2010-11-21 17:51 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-21 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-22 9:40 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2010-11-22 11:17 ` grischka
2010-11-22 11:27 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 11:43 ` grischka
2010-11-22 14:06 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 16:18 ` grischka
2010-11-22 17:30 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 7:40 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-23 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 15:30 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-22 17:30 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 7:41 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-23 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 15:31 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-23 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 17:18 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-04 18:10 ` grischka
2010-12-05 11:44 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-05 20:27 ` grischka
2010-12-06 9:23 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-06 17:43 ` grischka
2010-12-06 19:41 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-06 22:43 ` grischka
2010-12-06 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 7:23 ` grischka
2010-12-07 7:16 ` grischka
2011-01-09 19:50 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-07 8:18 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-07 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 16:38 ` grischka
2010-12-07 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 16:57 ` martin rudalics
[not found] ` <2E2DF95135DA4B8F9F96C1AEA1D6C606@us.oracle.c! ! om>
2010-12-07 17:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 17:56 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-07 18:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-22 21:34 ` Customizations and diff-list " Tom Breton (Tehom)
2010-11-23 7:42 ` martin rudalics
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-12 0:14 bug#7381: 24.0.50; Provide a hook run when a window is selected Štěpán Němec
2010-11-12 8:16 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-12 11:31 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-12 13:05 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-12 14:53 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-12 16:31 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-12 17:09 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-12 18:09 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-12 18:40 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-13 8:32 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-13 12:13 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-13 13:57 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-13 15:23 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-13 16:02 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-14 12:51 ` The window-pub branch (was Re: bug#7381: 24.0.50; Provide a hook run when a window is selected) Štěpán Němec
2010-11-14 18:59 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-14 20:55 ` The window-pub branch Štěpán Němec
2010-11-15 8:00 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-15 12:14 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-15 13:42 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-15 15:44 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-15 17:01 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-15 19:46 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-16 16:56 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-16 21:13 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-17 8:00 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-17 12:05 ` Štěpán Němec
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