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From: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <tehom@panix.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Customizations and diff-list Re: The window-pub branch
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:34:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea702c1ab074370eb2920925de0120be.squirrel@mail.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CEA3A75.50100@gmx.at>

> With `display-buffer-names' a user can set the `override' specifier so
> this is no problem.  What's difficult is how to merge back or dismiss a
> value changed by the application.  Consider the following scenario:
>
> (1) The user customizes and saves the value of an option back to her
>      .emacs.
>
> (2) The application adds or changes an entry of the option and, assisted
>      by some extraordinary magic, manages to merge the new value into the
>      option without breaking anything.
>
> (3) The user customizes the option again, changing or removing the
>      application's entry.

Straying slightly from the topic, this is very nearly the problem that
custom-diff-list was meant for
(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CustomDiffList, seems to be by Alex
Schroeder)  I don't know that it's available as a library, though.

	Tom Breton (Tehom)






  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-22 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18 17:54 The window-pub branch grischka
2010-11-18 18:48 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-18 21:29   ` grischka
2010-11-19  8:00     ` martin rudalics
2010-11-19 13:38       ` grischka
2010-11-19 14:44         ` martin rudalics
2010-11-19 16:45           ` grischka
2010-11-20  9:19             ` martin rudalics
2010-11-20 14:43               ` grischka
2010-11-20 18:03                 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-20 21:15                   ` grischka
2010-11-21  9:49                     ` martin rudalics
2010-11-21 13:34                       ` grischka
2010-11-21 17:51                         ` martin rudalics
2010-11-21 20:29                           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-22  9:40                             ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 11:17                               ` grischka
2010-11-22 11:27                                 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 11:43                                   ` grischka
2010-11-22 14:06                                     ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 16:18                                       ` grischka
2010-11-22 17:30                                         ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 19:43                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23  7:40                                             ` martin rudalics
2010-11-23 14:30                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 15:30                                                 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 16:44                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-22 17:30                                         ` martin rudalics
2010-11-22 19:45                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23  7:41                                             ` martin rudalics
2010-11-23 14:36                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 15:31                                                 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-23 16:25                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-23 17:18                                                     ` martin rudalics
2010-12-04 18:10                                                       ` grischka
2010-12-05 11:44                                                         ` martin rudalics
2010-12-05 20:27                                                           ` grischka
2010-12-06  9:23                                                             ` martin rudalics
2010-12-06 17:43                                                               ` grischka
2010-12-06 19:41                                                                 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-06 22:43                                                                   ` grischka
2010-12-06 23:05                                                                     ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07  7:23                                                                       ` grischka
2010-12-07  7:16                                                                     ` grischka
2011-01-09 19:50                                                                       ` martin rudalics
2010-12-07  8:18                                                                     ` martin rudalics
2010-12-07 15:38                                                                       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 16:38                                                                         ` grischka
2010-12-07 17:11                                                                           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 16:57                                                                         ` martin rudalics
     [not found]                                                                           ` <2E2DF95135DA4B8F9F96C1AEA1D6C606@us.oracle.c! ! om>
2010-12-07 17:43                                                                           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 17:56                                                                             ` martin rudalics
2010-12-07 18:21                                                                               ` Drew Adams
2010-11-22 21:34                               ` Tom Breton (Tehom) [this message]
2010-11-23  7:42                                 ` Customizations and diff-list " martin rudalics

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