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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.

  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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