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Re: Verbosity patch for custom-load-symbol
From: |
David Reitter |
Subject: |
Re: Verbosity patch for custom-load-symbol |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:27:42 +0100 |
On 22 Apr 2006, at 13:03, Richard Stallman wrote:
Here is a little patch for custom.el which prevents it from
displaying unnecessary messages that can be confusing at times
(e.g.
"loading battery" when a user selects "Save Options").
Why do you think that hiding the loading message is important?
Is there some reason it is particularly confusing?
Yes - it's information overload. Giving the user information they
don't need is never a good idea, unless your product needs to be
debugged and informational messages are important.
I was actually asked why something like "battery" is loaded when
they're just saving options.
Calls to `require' don't show a "loaded.." message, so why should
`custom-load-symbol' do so?
Why does it load files in order to save options?
`custom-load-symbol' is called for every saved variable by `customize-
mark-to-save', I believe in order to load its default. That was a fix
for a bug that I reported a while ago.
revision 1.122
date: 2006-02-20 15:59:51 +0000; author: cyd; state: Exp; lines:
+2 -0
* custom.el (customize-mark-to-save, customize-mark-as-set): Load
the symbol first.