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Re: library-specific customization files?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: library-specific customization files? |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:39:26 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks for this reference. I took a quick look at it.
>
> John's code tries to match against variable names. I think it would be good
> to build on what he has done, integrating it within Customize.
>
> Name matching is not 100% failsafe, since not all variable names in all Lisp
> packages use prefixes, and some name parts could also, I imagine, result in
> false hits to the wrong library.
>
> Instead of relying on name matching, Customize should use positive
> knowledge of which variables belong to which Lisp files to create a
> failsafe mapping. A library census a la TAGS could be used, if
> Customize does not already have an explicit mapping of variables to
> their libraries.
Customization variables already have groups. But I don't see how
splitting them makes any sense: the stuff that customize writes is not
supposed to be user-accessible anyway.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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- Re: library-specific customization files?, Stefan, 2004/10/30
- Re: library-specific customization files?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/10/30
- RE: library-specific customization files?, Drew Adams, 2004/10/30
- RE: library-specific customization files?, Drew Adams, 2004/10/30
- Re: library-specific customization files?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: library-specific customization files?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/10/31
- Re: library-specific customization files?, David Kastrup, 2004/10/31
- Re: library-specific customization files?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/10/31
- Re: library-specific customization files?, Stefan, 2004/10/31