From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: default.el and site-start.el Date: 28 Jun 2003 18:46:53 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <342pfvgngqokun85dntsata2d2pisum7ll@4ax.com> <5ladc35kwb.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056851416 14800 80.91.224.249 (29 Jun 2003 01:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 29 03:50:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19WRKX-0003qX-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 03:50:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19WRKr-0005rK-TK for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:50:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 14 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114823 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11316 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11316 >>>>> Stefan Monnier writes: > I don't actually use default.el because it can create surprise when > the user sets something in his .emacs and it gets overridden by > default.el. Users should tend toward 'setq' in their .emacs while admins should tend toward 'defvar' (or 'defcustom') in default.el. (CMIMW) defvar doesn't override the value set by setq. -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA