From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 13583@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13583: 24.3.50; Error when activating auto-revert-mode
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:42:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0h5-Heax1872Md43W6Cdq3-y6EE_XuvAWYDj2wzUCCpJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83boc8i2u5.fsf@gnu.org>
>> The problem with that approach is that, if I do some other
>> customization and save it
>
> ??? You just said that you "try to avoid the customize facility", so
> why in the world would you want to save your customizations??
So far I use it for face customization, exclusively.
> Instead of saving them, use the custom-set-variables function to do
> what you want, when you want.
Good idea. I'll do it.
>> the custom facility writes _all_ current unsaved customization to
>> the custom file, therefore the customization of
>> `auto-revert-use-notify' would end up in the custom file, which is
>> not what I want, obviously.
>
> This is a misunderstanding, surely: custom-set-variables does not save
> anything. It arranges for the variable to be customized, as if you
> used the Customize user interface. So I don't understand how "unsaved
> customizations" and "custom file" come into play here. Could you
> perhaps give more details about the workflow which brings you to those
> issues, including the commands you use?
In my init file, I store a file name in `custom-file' so that the
stuff that customize manages is kept separate from my stuff, i.e., the
things I've write myself in my init file.
In the custom file, I have exclusively face customizations, which I
can tweak and save whenever I want.
So, if I write a call to customize-set-faces or
customize-set-variables right in my init file, the customizations made
that way end up in a "unsaved" state, so that if I do some face
customization (using customize) and save it, the custom file receives
not only the face customization, but also the other "unsaved" ones,
which I wanted to keep out of the custom file.
>> A workaround is to fool the customize facility by marking the relevant
>> customizations as "saved" just after the call to custom-set-variables,
>> but that is an ugly hack, IMO.
>
> Why would you need to save any customizations at all? If you want to
> customize yet another variable, add yet another custom-set-variables
> form to your .emacs, that's all. What am I missing?
Yes, I think that's a good approach. I'll get rid of my custom file,
and do the appropriate calls to custom-set-xxxx directly from my init
file.
Thank you. This bug can be closed.
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-29 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 10:59 bug#13583: 24.3.50; Error when activating auto-revert-mode Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 11:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 12:18 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 13:42 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2013-01-29 14:22 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 15:08 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-29 15:16 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2013-01-29 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-29 21:25 ` Andy Moreton
2013-01-29 22:35 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-30 23:42 ` Andy Moreton
2013-01-30 23:52 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-29 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 13:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-01-29 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 18:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-01-29 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-29 16:06 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-29 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-30 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-30 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-30 7:28 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-30 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-30 19:24 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-30 18:05 ` Dani Moncayo
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