From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RFC: Flavors - naming significant sets of customizations Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:19:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87pppo2q16.fsf@djcbsoftware.nl> References: <9fc6b1ae-7cbd-4a17-a9a0-f4af42969312@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385410767 27528 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2013 20:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:19:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 25 21:19:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl2d2-0000nf-UO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl2d2-0005Q6-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl2cl-0005PX-Fb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl2cf-0001Uq-HE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from vs16.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.117.197]:55989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl2cf-0001UV-9P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from vams (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vs16.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D8F720045 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:19:03 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.116]) by vs16.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FD520045 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:19:03 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from borealis (a88-114-90-187.elisa-laajakaista.fi [88.114.90.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47882139860 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:19:01 +0200 (EET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.1 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 62.142.117.197 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94622 Archived-At: On Monday Nov 25 2013, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: >> Has anyone already come up with a name for large customizations? > > "Theme"? > > Current customization themes typically only customize faces, but the > underlying implementation allows a lot more flexibility since it can > customize any Custom var and can include Elisp code. They actually work quite well for that. However, themes are not very 'hygienic' -- you cannot easily roll back a whole theme; when you choose a new theme, it works on top of the already chosen theme, with all the non-overridden settings still active. --Dir. -- Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Helsinki, Finland e:djcb@djcbsoftware.nl w:www.djcbsoftware.nl pgp: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C