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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com,  arash@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   joaotavora@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:45:38 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> 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,

I don't see why.  And even if it's so, why is it a problem to load the
library?

> in which case you might as well store the default value in the
> defcustom.

But you already explained why storing in a defcustom doesn't solve the
problem?  So why are you suggesting to do that anyway?

> Also, I don't think this helps people who use the Customize
> interface?

Why doesn't it help?