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Re: applying changes in .emacs
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don provan |
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Re: applying changes in .emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:13:29 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> don provan wrote:
> > Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> >>
> >>(setq max-lisp-eval-depth (* 2 max-lisp-eval-depth))
> >
> > Why would you want to configure a value to twice the current value?
>
> I'd rather do
> something like doubling it than setting it to some arbitrary value.
But you *are* setting it to some arbitrary value: 2 * current value.
The only difference between setting it to (* 2 max-lisp-eval-depth)
and setting it to 600 is that if you reload your .emacs file, it will
be 1200 instead of 600, yet the value you want to use is still 600.
> If
> the standard value changes in the future, who cares? If such a change
> (or some other implementation change) makes the doubling unnecessary I
> can simply delete it -- I purge my .emacs of such hacks when a new major
> version is released.
If you're going to reexamine this issue any time there's a possibility
that the default number might change, that's all the more reason not
to bother making the number relative to its default value.
About the only rational I can think is documentation purposes, but I'd
prefer a simple comment: "; this is twice the default value".
-don