From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Customize is only for newbies? [was: use-package.el -> Emacs core]
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 01:01:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85lha5s8tq.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3a260ce-f974-4928-84ea-6052dc2ee0dd@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2015 07:08:03 -0800 (PST)")
On Tue, Nov 10 2015, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > It also makes sure that any followup actions
>> > necessary after setting the variables are being performed.
>>
>> Sure, :set is kind of a custom(er) lock-in.
>
> Dunno whether that was supposed to be a joke.
Quite serious, if a bit laconic.
> :set is a hook for variables. It runs code whenever
> the variable is set. That's a feature that you can
> use in your programming. It doesn't lock anyone into
> anything.
Please see
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/107690
The bug report's author makes my point in an admirably eloquent way.
Wolfgang :-)
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Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-10 0:02 use-package.el -> Emacs core John Wiegley
2015-11-10 0:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-10 0:31 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 0:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-10 7:55 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-10 11:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-10 12:10 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-10 12:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-10 12:40 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-10 12:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-10 15:15 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 15:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-10 15:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-11 0:37 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-11 0:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-10 15:55 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 16:08 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-10 14:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-10 14:15 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-10 14:22 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 15:17 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 15:46 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 18:15 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 19:32 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 19:47 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 21:00 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 15:56 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-10 18:20 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 18:32 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-10 18:38 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 18:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-10 18:55 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 19:24 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-10 19:35 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-10 12:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-10 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-10 13:06 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-10 18:15 ` Evgeny Panasyuk
2015-11-10 18:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-10 13:32 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-11-10 15:08 ` Customize is only for newbies? [was: use-package.el -> Emacs core] Drew Adams
2015-11-11 0:01 ` Wolfgang Jenkner [this message]
2015-11-10 14:58 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-10 15:42 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 8:49 ` use-package.el -> Emacs core João Távora
2015-11-10 8:57 ` Pedro Silva
2015-11-10 9:45 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 12:01 ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-10 13:37 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 14:07 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-10 14:39 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-11-10 14:48 ` João Távora
2015-11-10 15:40 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-12 12:43 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-11-10 17:36 ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-10 0:44 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-10 1:05 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 1:24 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-10 1:37 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 3:20 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-10 5:37 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-10 6:07 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 23:27 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-10 23:32 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 9:29 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-11 16:48 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 20:04 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-11 20:10 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-12 2:11 ` Copyright assignments in Gnu Elpa (was: use-package.el -> Emacs core) Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-12 2:19 ` Copyright assignments in Gnu Elpa John Wiegley
2015-11-12 3:50 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-12 22:31 ` Copyright assignments in Gnu Elpa (was: use-package.el -> Emacs core) Richard Stallman
2015-11-15 14:51 ` Copyright assignments in Gnu Elpa Andreas Röhler
2015-11-16 19:30 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-10 1:37 ` use-package.el -> Emacs core Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-10 8:24 ` joakim
2015-11-11 0:29 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-11 0:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-11 9:30 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-11 10:04 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-11 10:20 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-10 8:44 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-10 9:29 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-11 0:32 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-11 0:37 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 18:21 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-10 18:34 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 19:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-10 20:09 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-10 20:27 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 0:04 ` Stephen Leake
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