From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Settings Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:13:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y2zuumeg.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="113679"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 27 01:14:04 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i2OBY-000TSQ-1u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 01:14:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58286 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2OBW-0004sP-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55454) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2OB2-0004sF-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48766) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2OB1-0002FJ-BQ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i2OB0-0002AP-G5; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:13:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:45:21 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:239603 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. ]]] > IOW if Emacs just loads ~/.emacs.d/custom.el before ~/.emacs.d/emacs.el > some things will break, and same thing if it swaps the order. I wonder if we can do something more intelligent about this. For instance, can we figure out that certain variables need to be set early and others late? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)