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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Cc: nick@tenpoint.co.nz, 24229@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24229: 25.1; Can't set EPA program
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:21:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ziobe80q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <od1oa4rx2h2.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> (message from Daiki Ueno on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:46:01 +0200)

> From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:46:01 +0200
> Cc: "24229@debbugs.gnu.org" <24229@debbugs.gnu.org>
> 
> > None of these variables forces the use of customize. Why 
> > is epg-gpg-program such a special case?
> 
> That is primarily because of the UX differences between three maintained
> versions of GnuPG: 2.0, 2.1, and 1.x.  GnuPG 2.0 does not provide a way
> to prompt passphrase without GUI, but others do.  Some people are fine
> with 2.0 as they use Emacs on a graphical environment only, but other
> people are not.
> 
> So, we really need to take account of user's intention here; check
> whether the variable set by user or it is the default value.  With
> 'setq' it is not possible to have such distinction.

Doesn't Customize provide some functions that allow such a
distinction?  The Customize UI surely is able to tell when a variable
was "changed not through Customize", isn't that what you want?

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-17 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-15  4:58 bug#24229: 25.1; Can't set EPA program Nick Helm
2016-08-15 22:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-08-16  0:56   ` Nick Helm
2016-08-16 19:38     ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-17  0:18       ` Nick Helm
2016-08-17  7:46         ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-17 15:21           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-18  7:14             ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-18 14:13               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-18 15:08                 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-18 15:35                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-18 15:46                   ` Glenn Morris
2016-08-18 16:16                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-19  9:22                       ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-19  9:40                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-17 17:45           ` Richard Stallman
2016-08-18  1:32           ` Nick Helm

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