From: William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Feedback on new Customization
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:30:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199610112230.PAA23921@newman.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjybhdfkvg.fsf@kolmogorov.dina.kvl.dk>
Per Abrahamsen writes:
>
>William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
>
>> Brent B. Powers writes:
>>
>> >Wouldn't it be lovely if one could have a custom-file attached to
>> >particular customization groups? {ahem, hint, hint} In that way, I
>> >could have my gnus stuff go to either .custom or .gnus, my
>> >customization stuff go to .custom, et alia
>>
>> Ohhh ohhh - I like this idea.
>
>Guess I have to explain *why* it would be a major bother, then.
>
>Using groups would be the wrong mechanism. Each customization option
>can belong to any number of groups, from zero and upward. The same is
>true for the groups, so the result is not a nice hierarchy, but a
>directed graph. It can even be cyclic.
>
>One add an extra keyword argument to defcustom and defface indicating
>for each option which file they belong to, but that would be a lot of
>extra work for the customizer, for no gain I can see.
>
>> -Bill "Thinking about making W3 use defcustom" Perry
>
>Are you willing to make Red Gnus a prerequisite for w3?
Well, it _is_ beta. :)
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-11 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-08 15:55 Lance A. Brown
1996-10-08 16:46 ` Richard Pieri
1996-10-08 23:43 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-09 0:30 ` Raja R Harinath
1996-10-10 0:51 ` Problems w/ rgnus-0.49 and tm-7.89 (was Re: Feedback on new Customization) Raja R Harinath
1996-10-10 9:32 ` Jan Vroonhof
1996-10-09 9:47 ` Feedback on new Customization Wesley.Hardaker
1996-10-09 13:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-09 22:22 ` Brent B. Powers
1996-10-10 10:11 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-10 13:41 ` William Perry
1996-10-11 17:53 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-11 22:30 ` William Perry [this message]
1996-10-15 7:38 ` Wesley.Hardaker
1996-10-15 11:49 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-10 7:13 ` Wesley.Hardaker
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