Re: External programs and resources

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> - A customization group, maybe named "external-programs"?

Normally developers define a group, and when defining variables, they
assign the group with it.

Custom allows you to do the inverse, too:  Define a group together
with all the variables belonging to it -- the members.  Therefore
somebody could get started working on something like that, and post
his defgroup statement here for others to consider.  Once we are
happy, such a file would be easy to add to Emacs -- no other files are
touched!  And it wouldn't run against the feature freeze.  :)

There is a page on the Emacs Wiki, for example, where people tried to
collect the variables newbies are most likely to customize so that we
can just offer them in a "Most Useful" group or something like that.
Unfortunately, it seems that people lost interest (including me,
ahem).

Alex.
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