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Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:20:56 -0500 |
There are (at least) four things wrong with 2-5 above. Firstly, it
adds complexity for no good reason.
It is for a very good reason: to enable custom to edit the right file,
the one that was loaded. That's well worth this small amount of
complexity.
Secondly it breaks backward
compatibility.
I don't see any significant incompatibility. The file edited in this
way will usually be the same one. Only the reason for choosing it
will be different. A small amount of incompatibility in something
unusual and advanced like this is no big deal.
Thirdly, it introduces a shaky temporary solution to
something that is currently not really broken and for which we plan to
implement a more solid alternative later on anyway (by 7.).
#7 is not a plan to implement anything. It just recognizes the
possibility that someday we might go further. For the present, the
only plan is what I've stated in points 1-6.
Would someone like to implement some or all of this plan?
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, (continued)
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/12
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Juri Linkov, 2004/12/13
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/13
Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/13
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/12/13
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/13
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/14
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/15
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/15
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/16
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/16
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/17
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Kim F. Storm, 2004/12/17
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/20
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/20
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/22