From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Close .emacs file after customization? Date: 27 Feb 2003 15:18:47 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046388867 27488 80.91.224.249 (27 Feb 2003 23:34:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:34:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oXXj-00078j-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:34:23 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18oXor-0003Yg-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:52:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oXXQ-0002Xr-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oXW7-0001pD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:32:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oXVo-0001GP-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oXTt-00008o-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oXTZ-0006uJ-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:30:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oXIL-0006Ar-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:18:29 +0100 Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12013 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12013 >>>>> Richard Stallman writes: > You will get a warning if customize *does not* kill the .emacs buffer > after saving customization, which is currently the case, but that is > precisely what the original poster wanted to change. > If Emacs already has a buffer visiting .emacs, and that file has > changed on disk, visiting it again will ask whether to reread the > file. The only advantage of killing the buffer is that you won't > have to answer that question. Is that a major advantage? The other advantage is that it no longer is in memory, but that may not be major. I think the real question, though, should be is there a major advantage to *not* killing the buffer. This becomes more important when you remember that it's not about killing the .emacs buffer, but rather the custom-file buffer. > We could make Custom kill the buffer if it didn't exist before > Custom created it. That's probably preferable to prevent confusion. -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA