From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why is custom--inhibit-theme-enable not t by default? Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:16:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <10b7bd657091b074d8da1bf1ae35b1f4.squirrel@dancol.org> <83h8m8owp2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528856355 14586 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2018 02:19:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 02:19:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 04:19:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fSvNO-0003hm-HE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 04:19:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSvPV-0004gV-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:21:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50074) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSvKb-0001BR-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSvKa-0005s2-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSvKS-0005pG-Sk; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fSvKK-0004a3-5G; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:16:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <83h8m8owp2.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:23:37 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226275 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think themes are special in this regard: loading a theme activates > it. Do we really want loading the file to activate the theme? We could instead have a command to select a theme, which autoloads the theme if necessary. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)