From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"? Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:28:33 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <877h7ok9cd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87d3hgprjb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310412948 11927 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2011 19:35:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:35:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 21:35:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgMGd-0007au-LN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:35:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60489 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgMGc-0008MY-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgM9w-0007Cu-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgM9v-0002tw-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46295) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgM9u-0002tq-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgM9s-0004Pv-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:28:44 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:28:44 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:28:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAKlBMVEWTb3YVDArj1uj5+f3z 7/rRvtFuPDf9/v7////t5vT+//6miZfAp7qIWlvb856/AAACKElEQVQ4jW3SsY6bQBAA0KnSEBc0 +YCNUUQNke9ag5RsSzRSpNDQbOeKRPhqR8JyiX2KVvmApKRLsbg5iWq3cOWOf8ks5/PZmClsNG+Y 2Vkb1n2syrv1dYD92Gzy9Wx5Az/w6aMxX4dvLNe/walr+HcLHmqD+OUGij/Fw/uiKK9nlLCsWMV8 v5IfBnDHeSwjKfmvK8hpxsYeeDChDGG4WJ/+u7ofhSDPOSzHIIrmY1CGcVyNQR5zyS6hfP5ahXPJ vEtYnV7gtDKOQMgZ88zlcVenTtUQnmesYu4xNLcLfg8lwzEI4oryBj4PIeSPiK2GaJAvQ+khpgp2 g9V/ct92UjAtrl94oNGt0Qr88/T+tOV95aUpWvh0sV9Z5D20CiA5w4zSQcArlhq0sD01KqKA8qEv H7G1gNvTsfIoCsKI+3KOaUqnal+G5NtdWMlq6lct6m8WtjP7LyyDWErGmM8YJrQ4mGQaFcU6zyNK 07WyBGlBtYcG/V0U0O8vK7oKigS91NQATct8uQvorj17FcYklG/qCTgGqTGP7fH7oBvUuj4StEjE vCetKBprWsMRDsoWIepG13ASXU8EdA49tmjqt9ABAIFq6n2XweLg2DLdOUfRHTpQ1LGeLAiozlFG iYMQi07YMgVHkYEtO1CR6DJXkBHUBC4BBai9EK7rkkHtwKGHRddRuzeuBdd9R50nC5ERiM5a5p7C drA1BLazeAWK7Ayv+R7cMXiJ/66uE2jh3QDTAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: The Cure's _Seventeen Seconds (1)_: "M" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C5JBAuGfKHQ9qo7v68CbJ9CufpM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141956 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > But, on reflection, maybe > > (ignore-errors (customize-save-variable ...)) > > would work just as well. Well, ignoring errors like that is generally not a good idea. If saving the .emacs file errors out, you want to know, for instance. And it doesn't set the variables in question if you do that. I think just making `customize-save-variable' set and warn will make the "emacs -Q" special case work nicely for all use cases. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/