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Re: "CHANGED outside Customize" in frames customization group
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: "CHANGED outside Customize" in frames customization group |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:18:25 +0100 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
> IIUC `custom-reevaluate-setting' can be used to set a variable after
> some environment value has been established as for `blink-cursor-mode'.
> The situation seems completely different for `default-frame-alist'.
>
> In what way is it different?
`frame-notice-user-settings' may set the value of `default-frame-alist'
overriding a saved or standard value. The value of `blink-cursor-mode'
is not reset by Emacs.
> The first reason is immediately visible
> when starting Emacs without your .emacs. The value is here:
>
> ((left-fringe) (right-fringe) (menu-bar-lines . 1) (tool-bar-lines . 1))
>
> I know how to get rid of the -fringe entries.
>
> ISTR someone recently posted a patch that would affect the handling
> of fringes in `default-frame-alist'. Would they get rid of those?
I hope so.
> But I don't know what to
> do with the -line entries (which are BTW already there in Emacs 21).
>
> Why does anything need to be done with them?
> Could you just leave them alone?
> Or else change the numbers?
>
> Delete them in the customization buffer, save your settings, restart
> Emacs, and here they are again.
>
> That is arguably a bug, and maybe we should fix it.
> However, I do not see that this bug is so grave
> that we should conclude that `default-frame-alist' is
> unsuitable for use with Custom.
The bug causes the "CHANGED outside Customize ..." state.
> A second reason is the function `modify-all-frames-parameters'. This
> function may set `default-frame-alist'. Customize `tool-bar-mode' or
> `fringe-mode' and you will change your `default-frame-alist' settings.
>
> I don't see a problem in that. Why do you think it is a problem?
> What aspect of it is the problem?
Customizing `fringe-mode' calls `modify-all-frames-parameters' which
sets `default-frame-alist'. I'm now told that `default-frame-alist' was
CHANGED outside Customize although all I actually did was _customizing_
some option.
> If the problem is in some detail of the behavior of Custom when it is
> used on `default-frame-alist', maybe we can fix that detail.
> For instance, maybe those other commands should do somethingto inform
> Custom of the changes, so that it looks like `default-frame-alist'
> was set using Custom.
Suppose I set and save a new value for `fringe-mode'. Should Emacs
automatically set and save the new value for `default-frame-alist'?