From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Starnge comment in Custom Theme code.
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:57:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Er0L4-00078k-7B@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512260421.jBQ4Lvp00108@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:21:57 -0600 (CST))
I believe that setq expresses just as much an individual preference by
the user than a saving or setting through Custom.
That is true in some cases, but it is hard to say anything general
about why a variable was setq'd.
If a program did
the setq, the situation may be worse, because the program may be
relying on the setq-ed value for its proper functioning.
That is true in some cases.
If the user sets cua-mode via Custom then cua-mode seems to set
transient-mark-mode, delete-selection-mode and pc-selection-mode using
setq or minor mode invocation.
That is an unclean way to do things--I am not surprised that it can
lead to problems. I can imagine other scenarios where Custom, not
using themes, would give perplexing results for these variables.
I don't know what we should do about it. Perhaps nothing; it may not
be worth the effort to solve this "right". However, I don't think we
should try to draw any conclusions about custom themes from a case as
screwed-up as this one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-26 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-24 16:30 Starnge comment in Custom Theme code Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-24 17:21 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-24 18:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-24 18:35 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-24 18:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-24 18:42 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-24 18:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-24 18:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-25 2:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-26 2:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-26 4:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-26 21:57 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-12-26 18:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-24 18:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-24 19:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-24 20:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-25 1:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-26 2:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-26 3:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-27 4:55 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-26 4:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-26 18:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-27 2:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-25 2:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-25 3:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
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