Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation

[Kim F. Storm]

"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:

>     How can you save Customize settings without also setting their
>     current values (today)? And, again, changing a value in your init
>     file is not what is meant currently by "set"; "set" refers to
>     setting the current values.
>
> Just by saving them:  for example, just now I changed my bold face
> from 
>
>      '(bold ((t (:background "DodgerBlue4" :foreground "PaleGreen"))))
> to
>      '(bold ((t (:background "DodgerBlue4" :foreground "Red"))))
>
> and saved it.  No, I did not set it.  (The red foreground would look
> ghastly if I did.  I am going to change the face back before I restart
> this Emacs.)  So the new setting is saved but not set.

So you say that Customize has a "save" operation that does "F => S"?

To me, the only sensible save operation is "F => C,S".

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk