From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file-hook as illustration of Custom problems Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:39:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200502040036.j140atb03430@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502060150.j161oqh15336@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502080150.j181oMf07339@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108061146 5366 80.91.229.2 (10 Feb 2005 18:45:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 10 19:45:45 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzJJo-0000k2-DO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:45:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzJYa-0007dC-Tz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzJVW-0006Mk-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzJVO-0006Ij-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzJVO-0006Hn-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:57:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CzJHn-0005wn-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CzJEC-0005Vg-Ga; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:39:48 -0500 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33200 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33200 > This is the wrong solution. The right solution for variables such as > minibuffer-prompt-properties is to set up a valid expression for its > standard value. It may be necessary to store the current default > value in a new variable or use a `valid-expression' property on the variable I do not understand that suggestion. The symbol `valid-expression' does not occur in cus-edit.el. If you are proposing it as the way to represent some new feature, I don't know what the new feature would do.