Re: Add user-init option to include a custom init snippet (not replacing the whole init file) (issue1901042)

[Ian Hulin]

Hi Reinhold,
On 28/07/10 01:43, address@hidden wrote:
> Reviewers: Neil Puttock,
>
>
> http://codereview.appspot.com/1901042/diff/2001/3001
> File ly/init.ly (right):
>
> http://codereview.appspot.com/1901042/diff/2001/3001#newcode26
> ly/init.ly:26: #(if (ly:get-option 'user-init)
> On 2010/07/27 20:16:58, Neil Puttock wrote:
> > user-include ?
>
> Hmm, actually, I don't like either user-init (indicates it's part of the
> init sequence and has similar uses as the --init command line option;
> also it sounds too technical) nor user-include (to me that sounds like
> setting an include path)...
>
> How about custom-definitions or user-definitions (no, sounds too much
> like it defines users)?
How about --user-startup or --custom-startup?

The real problem you have here is that we use --init option to supersede
the whole startup/initialization file.  This one is an additional one to
do just for this user session, so user-startup says what it does on the can.

Cheers,

Ian