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Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"? |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:02:33 +0900 |
Tim Cross writes:
> I *think* I agree, though am not clear what 'saving' means compared to
> 'setting' within the context of the -Q switch
I think it should mean an error, while the maintainers seem to be (and
Lars clearly is) happy with a warning. Nobody *wants* silence.
> OK, but that does not affect my point regarding the importance of -Q
> representing a standard, well defined and consistent configuration.
Right. I think there is consensus on that. My point is simply that
in many cases, -Q will not be a useful environment. Lars proposes to
make it somewhat more useful, at the cost of complexifying the
behavior of custom-save-variable, and making pollution of the -Q
environment a bit less painful.
> Hmm. That wasn't my impression - at least not initially. What I
> understood was that he wanted to modify how the save operation worked
> under the -Q switch so that it only set the variable and did not warn
> the user the value was not saved.
Indeed, that was my impression too, as well as Drew Adams'. But Lars
clarified that he just didn't bother to mention adding a warning, I
guess because he wanted to focus on the major change from signaling an
"unwritable" error to handling it within `custom-save-variable'.
> However, my concern was whether having code actually change
> variables from their default state under the -Q switch was a good
> idea at all as it does change the fundamental meaning of -Q.
I think there is a consensus that this should be avoided when possible
and done very carefully when necessary.
> whether we are better off leaving -Q to mean EVERYTHING at its
> default state and doing something else, like having the custom
> functions do something other than raise an error when code tries to
> save custom values under -Q
Of course that's what it means. So the problem is what do you do when
what you need to do *requires* changing state? I think it's plausible
that almost anything to do with mail will *require* changes to the -Q
state before you get useful behavior.
Note that saving custom values does not change the -Q environment.
It's just that you're unlikely to bother saving in the virgin -Q
environment (you can always reproduce that with -Q!), so an attempt to
save pretty much implies you've already changed state in a significant
way.
> (maybe a warning they are not saved rather than an error) or
> perhaps it already does the right thing and what the code is trying
> to do is incorrect and needs refactoring.
My position is that the code needs refactoring, because I don't like
the idea of facilitating exceptions here, and I think that changing
`custom-save-variable' will make doing customizations in the -Q
environment more attractive. But that doesn't seem to be the position
of the maintainers.
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, (continued)
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Chong Yidong, 2011/07/11
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/11
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/11
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, chad, 2011/07/11
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/11
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/11
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/12
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/12
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/12
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/13
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/13
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/13
- Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/12
Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/07/11
Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Dave Abrahams, 2011/07/15
Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?, Christoph Scholtes, 2011/07/17