From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
Reiner.Steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:56:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Cmdk5-0006is-A1@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501060346.j063kht03686@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:46:43 -0600 (CST))
The best way to make set-variable work buffer-locally depends on
whether and how we want to make Custom work buffer-locally.
We want to make Custom work buffer-locally. This is not super-urgent,
but it is very desirable for the long term.
For interactive use, `custom-local-buffer' seems to inconvenient
(even if it worked reliably, which it does not).
Of course this is not meant as an end-user interface. It is meant
as a mechanism for the end-user interface to use. For that purpose,
it is clean enough.
If we do
not care about making Custom set buffer-local values, the best thing
would probably be :set-local and :get-local keywords, as Richard
suggested. That _maybe_ could also be the case if we wanted to make
Custom work buffer-locally.
I had forgotten about custom-local-buffer. Now that I remember it, I
see no advantage in :set-local and :get-local. The :set and :get
functions can just as easily test custom-local-buffer.
Making Custom work buffer locally is very tricky. It does not seem
like something for before the next release.
If specific :set and :get functions fail to handle custom-local-buffer,
that is a bug. We can fix these bugs at any time. Would you like
to find some cases that fail, and fix them?
Adding a nice UI so that Custom uses custom-local-buffer is a
different job. We might not want to install that now; however, people
could start implementing it now, to be installed later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-02 6:41 Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers Drew Adams
2005-01-02 13:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-02 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-02 20:44 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-02 23:52 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-03 16:55 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-01-03 17:13 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-03 17:20 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-03 17:57 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-04 9:03 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-04 9:10 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-04 9:26 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-04 10:16 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-04 15:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-04 18:12 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-04 18:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-04 19:50 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-05 8:33 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-05 17:50 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-01-02 20:25 ` Reiner Steib
2005-01-02 20:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-02 23:52 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-03 0:35 ` Stefan
2005-01-03 1:57 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-03 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-03 20:45 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-04 9:46 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-04 18:12 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-05 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-05 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-05 20:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-05 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-05 21:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-06 9:06 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-06 15:26 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-01-06 20:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-06 19:05 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-06 19:55 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-06 20:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-24 22:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-09 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 9:24 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-04 14:13 ` Stefan
2005-01-04 19:54 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 20:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-05 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-05 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-06 19:56 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-05 8:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-03 17:47 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-01-03 20:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-04 1:58 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-01-03 7:51 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-04 0:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-05 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-05 4:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-06 3:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-06 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-07 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-06 19:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2005-01-07 4:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-07 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-03 17:28 ` drkm
2005-01-03 18:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-03 18:56 ` drkm
2005-01-04 9:49 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-04 9:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-01-04 12:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-04 18:12 ` Drew Adams
2005-01-03 0:58 ` Richard Stallman
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