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RE: :file keyword for Customize


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: :file keyword for Customize
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 14:27:22 -0700

>  > This is about letting an individual option or face (or 
>  > perhaps group) decide where it is stored (and consequently
>  > let users decide when it is loaded). The place to do that
>  > is in `defcustom' and `defface' (and perhaps `defgroup').
> 
> I think this is a YAGNI, and likely to lead to a plethora of confusing
> custom files which appear at random times (ie, when you first save a
> customization for a variable that targets that file).

OK, so you think that. Care to give a reason or two?

Why is throwing everything into the same sack better? I grant you that at least
one knows which sack everything is in, if there is only one sack. But beyond
that?





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