Re: library-specific customization files?

[David Kastrup]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Customization variables already have groups.  But I don't see how
splitting them makes any sense: the stuff that customize writes is not
supposed to be user-accessible anyway.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum