From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 38696@debbugs.gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up"
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:37:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ijwXy-00040G-MJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71ad22c1-0af2-4428-8d64-22e21f4b2a7b@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 24 Dec 2019 08:08:11 -0800 (PST))
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> A priori that sounds complicated, and maybe error
> prone, to me. But maybe it's worth considering.
I am not trying to insist.
> My suggestion would be to just change the comment
> wording a bit, to make clear that future use of
> Customize might overwrite any manual changes you
> make to that code. IOW, state that clearly as a
> major reason _why_ you're advised not to edit the
> code.
I agree that would be an improvement.
> I'd even suggest that if `custom-file' is
> undefined then Customize should immediately ask
> a user to define it, instead of just silently
> writing to a user's init file.
I think that would make Emacs usage a little more complicated
for lots of users, and only a few would benefit.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-25 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-21 0:02 bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up" 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-21 6:34 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-21 8:12 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-21 19:08 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-22 0:35 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-22 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-23 2:58 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-23 3:29 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-22 3:35 ` arthur miller
2019-12-22 17:49 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-23 0:36 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-24 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-24 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-25 2:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-12-26 1:03 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-08-06 10:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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