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Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? |
Date: |
Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:52:01 +0100 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luc Teirlinck" <address@hidden>
> It does not appear to me that your reply addresses the following
> argument I made previously:
Hi Luc,
Sorry, I might have missed this. I do think in the same lines as you below.
I answered to Juris proposal in another message. There I said that things
like this could come after release. I see no problem with that if we use
Juri's approach.
- Lennart
> On second thought, I start doubting the utility of the feature you are
> proposing. One of the main reasons to have a custom file is to have
> different custom files for different versions of Emacs. Those
> versions share .emacs. So Custom should not write anything into
> .emacs of the type you are proposing, since the custom file usually is
> version dependent and .emacs is version independent.
>
> If Custom is to write anything in .emacs, it should allow the user to
> specify different custom files for different ranges of Emacs versions
> and write a `cond' form into .emacs of the type below. That might be
> useful, but I believe we should wait with that until after the release.
...
> `custom-file' according to the Emacs version (maybe using an alist),
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, (continued)
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/06
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/06
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/07
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/06
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/06
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/07
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/12/07
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/07
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Juri Linkov, 2004/12/07
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Juri Linkov, 2004/12/08
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/12/08
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/12/08
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/12/08
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/12/08
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/12/08
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/07
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/08
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/08