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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4449301: * etc/NEWS: Improve documentation of 'package-initialize'.
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:49:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtv7zljci.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmn5cPgb8uNvRTuTCiZ3kcUA+T96M0K7BFRVkLBqVPeb1w@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:12:11 +0200")

> It is a defcustom (a user option), but:
> 1. It's ineffective when set from the custom interface, since it has
> to be in the early init file.  Right?

I guess it can still be effective if you load your custom-file from
early-init.el, but indeed it's rather unlikely to be effective in
Emacs≥27.

> 2. It is a user option, but gets set automatically by
> package-initialize.  This makes it a bit confusing, because
> describe-variable says:

Indeed, and this problem already existed before.

> Would this be better as a defvar instead?

I think you're right.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20191022021600.2389.91268@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20191022021602.B41B3209DE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-10-22 12:28   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 4449301: * etc/NEWS: Improve documentation of 'package-initialize' Stefan Monnier
2019-10-23 12:12     ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-23 12:49       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-11-02  4:57         ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-04 17:53           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-11 16:07             ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-12 15:50               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-18 14:58                 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-14 11:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:05                 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-02  3:34       ` Stefan Kangas

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