Re: override defcustom

[Bruce Ingalls]

Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@fit-zones.DELETE-THE-SPAM-BLOCK.com> writes:
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> > I'd like to override the system defcustom defaults, in a way that
> > users can override my override.
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> What's wrong with using setq?
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> kai

I am providing a .emacs (EMacro) for end users.
Currently, I do create some setq()s, and save them into a preferences 
file, so I suppose I could go that way.

I have built EMacro, so that it does not require any knowledge of 
programming, in order to use it. Defcustom has a nice visual interface.

Users of EMacro should need to dig through my code, in order to find out 
where I set font-lock-maximum-decoration to t.

The final problem, is that font-lock-maximum-decoration should be set in 
one place. If users cannot change font-lock-maximum-decoration, by 
running M-x customize, or its Menu equivalent, they will be confused.
I'd rather not explain that M-x customize sometimes does not work.