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: Some developement questions Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:51:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sh36inql.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <8336v6cvem.fsf@gnu.org> <8736v6icgt.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83tvnmb958.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekigiiw.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <837ekhb2me.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhxcbmtr.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83in409lub.fsf@gnu.org> <871sanb71j.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <87k1oeaofu.fsf@ada> <20180825103413.gbm5stsl67j6weow@Ergus> <83h8jg5yin.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 1535410493 26172 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2018 22:54:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:54:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, radon.neon@gmail.com, flexibeast@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 28 00:54:48 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 1fuQPI-0006is-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:54:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35410 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuQRO-0007W1-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuQPY-0006iM-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuQLs-0006yo-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55284) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuQLj-0006rl-F4; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fuQLi-0004x9-QR; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:51:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83h8jg5yin.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 27 Aug 2018 05:33:36 +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:228990 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. ]]] > > If the goal is to give warnings when certain variables are set in > > .emacs, It might be possible to do an almost complete job of that by > > advising setq and a few friends around the loading of .emacs. > We have now Lisp watchpoints, which will do that much better and > cleaner. If that works well, it is fine with me. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)