RE: library-specific customization files?

[Drew Adams]

Thanks for this reference. I took a quick look at it.

John's code tries to match against variable names. I think it would be good
to build on what he has done, integrating it within Customize.

Name matching is not 100% failsafe, since not all variable names in all Lisp
packages use prefixes, and some name parts could also, I imagine, result in
false hits to the wrong library.

Instead of relying on name matching, Customize should use positive knowledge
of which variables belong to which Lisp files to create a failsafe mapping.
A library census a la TAGS could be used, if Customize does not already have
an explicit mapping of variables to their libraries.

-----Original Message-----
Are the people who are discussing this thread familiar with initsplit.el by
John Wiegley, available from: http://www.newartisans.com/johnw/emacs.html.
It seems to implement a functionality similar to the one being discussed.