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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Ted Zlatanov' <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: :file keyword for Customize
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 05:00:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlr08t1u.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c8b135$6d360920$0ab32382@us.oracle.com>

Drew Adams writes:

 > This is about letting an individual option or face (or perhaps group) decide
 > where it is stored (and consequently let users decide when it is loaded). The
 > place to do that is in `defcustom' and `defface' (and perhaps `defgroup').

I think this is a YAGNI, and likely to lead to a plethora of confusing
custom files which appear at random times (ie, when you first save a
customization for a variable that targets that file).






  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-08 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-08 16:35 :file keyword for Customize Drew Adams
2008-05-08 16:43 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-08 16:59   ` Drew Adams
2008-05-08 17:08     ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-08 17:41       ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-08 18:00         ` Drew Adams
2008-05-08 19:12           ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-08 21:27             ` Drew Adams
2008-05-09 14:01               ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-08 20:00           ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-05-08 21:27             ` Drew Adams
2008-05-08 21:34               ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-09  6:43               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-09  8:37             ` Bastien
2008-05-08 18:00       ` Drew Adams
2008-05-08 20:48 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 21:34   ` Drew Adams
2008-05-08 21:48     ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-08 22:10       ` Drew Adams
2008-05-08 22:31         ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 21:51     ` David Kastrup
2008-05-09 14:11   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-09 14:34     ` David Kastrup
2008-05-09 15:07       ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-09 21:17         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-12 13:13           ` :password customize type (was: :file keyword for Customize) Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-09 11:12 ` :file keyword for Customize Richard M Stallman
2008-05-13 13:53 ` Paul R
2008-05-13 14:28   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-13 21:48   ` Miles Bader

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