Re: Eliminating "changed in Emacs outside of Customize"

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think it'd be useful to add a warning/prompt when saving, along the
>> lines of "set outside customize: saving may not work".  With such
>> a warning, we could drop the "changed outside customize" state (well:
>> keep it internally, of course, but not show it to the user) and still
>> know that users won't be surprised when things don't work.

> Would not this mean that you would get less overview and that you would
> often not get any warning until you tried to save or set that particular
> option?

Yes, but it's still better than to drop the whole thing altogether.


        Stefan