From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Persistence of variables Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:51:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87in9prc2s.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87a7v20xlf.fsf@mbork.pl> <83a7v1lxxz.fsf@gnu.org> <87605p28ma.fsf@mbork.pl> <87605px048.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180321092746.GB7482@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1521625864 12836 195.159.176.226 (21 Mar 2018 09:51:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:51:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 10:50:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eyaOZ-0003Ci-IR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:50:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyaQc-0006AS-Mx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 05:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyaPt-0005zs-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 05:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyaPp-0003qP-He for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 05:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:38859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyaPp-0003pe-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 05:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F90E676E; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:52:14 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VlLXyatfYcEL; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:51:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (188.47.33.82.ipv4.supernova.orange.pl [188.47.33.82]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6541CE6700; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:51:44 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <20180321092746.GB7482@tuxteam.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116231 Archived-At: On 2018-03-21, at 10:27, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:13:11AM +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> >> On 2018-03-21, at 08:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > [...] > >> Any thoughts/suggestions? > > Only one: I'd tend to stay clear from the init file and write to some > other specialized file which is included from there (a bit like what > customize does by separating its stuff into custom.el). > > Ideally, like customize, the user could choose her ways by setting > a variable (in the customize-example, it's custom-file). > > More modularity, less risk. In general, this is a good point. But in my use-case, I will have one user besides me (it's a tool for our in-house workflow), and I wouldn't care about it too much. If I turn this into a Melpa package (or even a blog post), I would of course follow your suggestion. (The drawback is that the user would have to (once) insert something manually into init.el.) BTW, is there any demand for such a micro-package? Thanks, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl