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Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:14:29 -0800 (PST) |
"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 00:41, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > What is the advantage of that?
> > If someone is so offended by the .dir-settings.el name, they can:
>
> And why are you so offended by a defvar?
Because it's not a variable, it has to be a constant. (And a string
literal as it was until a few days ago is even better.)
In a few years someone will see the defvar and will want to turn it into
a defcustom and we'll have the same discussion again.
> It doesn't even have to be
> documented, other than a docstring:
Each extra variable adds a bit of complexity, and there's no shortage
of that.
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, (continued)
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juri Linkov, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Chong Yidong, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Chong Yidong, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/19
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/11/19
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juri Linkov, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/18
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/19
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/11/19
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Juri Linkov, 2008/11/19
- Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable, Tom Tromey, 2008/11/19