Re: Starnge comment in Custom Theme code.

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> The "we" refers to a discussion several months ago on Emacs devel.  I
> believe to remember that Richard then decided that themes should not
> override a non-Custom set value.

I can't find where this is discussed, if you mean the thread at

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-06/msg01062.html

> but if Richard changed his mind anyway, this is irrelevant.  It is
> logical to not override a non-Custom set value, because the user
> theme is never overridden.

You can also argue that loading a Custom Theme should overrides setq's
since Customize also overrides them.  Note that load-theme can be
called interactively; if a user does M-x load-theme, I don't think he
would expect this to fail to set some variables just because he had
something in his .emacs.

But I have no strong feelings on this, so I'll let Richard make the
decision.