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Re: Mail mode vs message mode
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Mail mode vs message mode |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:47:52 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>> (defcustom message-foo
>>>> (let ((def mail-foo))
>>>> (if (acceptable def) def fallback))
>>>> ...)
>>> That kind of defeats the purpose.
>> Why?
> Isn't the entire purpose of using a default value of `mail-foo' to pick
> up any user customizations of mail-foo in .emacs (otherwise it'd be easy
> enough to just use a literal "> " as a default for message-yank-prefix)?
> So if the user sets mail-yank-prefix to " ", but your (acceptable ...)
> test rejects that because it looks wrong, then the purpose has (to some
> extent) been defeated...
Clearly, we'd want the `acceptable' test to only reject the few default
settings of previous Emacsen that are not acceptable and accept
anything else. So we'd only ignore user's configurations if they have
their mail-foo var customized to one of those older default values.
For those, they'll have to set message-foo explicitly instead.
Stefan
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, (continued)
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Teemu Likonen, 2009/11/19
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Chong Yidong, 2009/11/19
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2009/11/19
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Reiner Steib, 2009/11/22
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2009/11/24
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Reiner Steib, 2009/11/25
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/25
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Chong Yidong, 2009/11/25
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/25
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Miles Bader, 2009/11/25
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2009/11/27
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Chong Yidong, 2009/11/27
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2009/11/28
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Chong Yidong, 2009/11/29
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2009/11/29
- Re: Mail mode vs message mode, Reiner Steib, 2009/11/22