Re: The window-pub branch

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Yes, sure.  As long as it's done safely via an helper-function that
>> you wrote.  For example:
>> (display-add-buffer-names-default-entry '((foo-normal) <specifiers))

> No matter how safely this is done - it changes the default value and not
> the value in the user's .emacs.  And it will make the customization
> interface complain about a value changed outside customize (fixing this
> was one of the main reason why I started working with specifiers).

To me (as a user) the main problem is that the user needs to be able to
easily override such settings.  So a package changing
display-buffer-names after reading the .emacs is not a good idea.


        Stefan