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From: | Vivek Dasmohapatra |
Subject: | Re: custom-set-variables considered harmful |
Date: | Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:06:24 +0000 (GMT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) |
The idea is basically to use a syntax which happens to look close to what you'd write by hand if you weren't using Customize, so that users who copy&paste snippets of code end up copying more or less valid code, instead of copying "code" like
Won't they then be surprised by the normal value sanitisation/hook-firing etc that some settings rely on not happening and have even less idea why it's not working when they inevitably cargo-cult the contents?
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