From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: custom-set-variables considered harmful Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:38:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510148352 31183 195.159.176.226 (8 Nov 2017 13:39:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:39:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 08 14:39:08 2017 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 1eCQZP-0007uP-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:39:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQZW-0008GS-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:39:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33311) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQZK-0008DL-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQZE-00036s-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60958 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQZE-00036G-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQZ4-00077O-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:38:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ac7pxvdjeWs2Sj+J69r2xatquaY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:219975 Archived-At: > Won't they then be surprised by the normal value sanitisation/hook-firing > etc that some settings rely on not happening and have even less idea > why it's not working when they inevitably cargo-cult the contents? Hmm... what you say rings some kind of bell, but not clearly enough: could give a scenario to clarify the issue? Stefan