Re: Making `eglot-server-programs' a custom variable?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>,  arash@gnu.org,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  joaotavora@gmail.com
>> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:03:51 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:47:52 -0800
>> >> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, João Távora
>> >>  <joaotavora@gmail.com>
>> >> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>> >> 
>> >> I think it would be super-helpful for there to be a way in the 
>> >> Customize interface to indicate that you want to add A, B, C to a 
>> >> defcustom list, and/or remove X, Y, Z.
>> >
>> > We already have that, AFAIU what you mean: see, for example
>> >
>> >   M-x customize-variable RET image-load-path RET
>> 
>> My issue here is that while you can modify the list, when saved you will
>> store the entire modified list, and no the modifications you made on the
>> base variable.
>
> The way to do this is to have a basic value as a defvar, and store the
> corrections to that in a defcustom.

But in that case you need to load the library to get the default value,
in which case you might as well store the default value in the
defcustom.  Also, I don't think this helps people who use the Customize
interface?