Re: Incorporating caching into defgroup/defcustom/defvar for Emacs 25

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Artur Malabarba writes:
>  > On 2 Feb 2015 01:07, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > > Why not?  Custom provides a "reset" functionality if the user *wants*
>  > > to reset.  It's not clear to me that a user wouldn't want changes to
>  > > customizable variables to persist.
>  > 
>  > I wasn't saying defcustoms shouldn't be persistent, I was just
>  > saying they already have a great mechanism for that so they don't
>  > need to use this caching mechanism that is being suggested for
>  > internal variables.
>
> Yes, they might.  A user who is testing out a new custom setting might
> like the setting to persist without explicitly saving it if Emacs
> crashes or he runs out of memory and needs to stop and restart Emacs,
> or something like that.

Personally, I very much prefer it if my experiments do not follow me
around for the rest of my life.  That is, I _like_ to be able to restart
Emacs and have it return to a well-known state.

-- 
David Kastrup