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Re: New tack for Customize
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: New tack for Customize |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:02:53 -0500 |
The new tack looks good, aside from this one point.
10. The latter corresponds more or less with today's Erase
Customization. If you choose it, however, no analysis of your
custom file is done, and no customization is removed from it.
Instead, an entry `(foo-option standard)' is added to
`custom-set-variables', which is at the end of the custom file.
I don't think we should get into this arms race. If an option is set
explicitly within custom-set-variables, then resetting it to standard
should be done by deleting mention of it. But if it is set within
.emacs in some other way, then the only way to get rid of that
is to edit .emacs suitably. Custom should not try to provide a
way to override .emacs. It should just tell the user to edit this
by hand.