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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: convert from setq to customization
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:56:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nof4o2xc1.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rju1ehc501.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (Per Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:45:50 +0100")

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003, abraham@dina.kvl.dk wrote:
> User options, i.e. anything declared by defcustom or defface, should
> only be modified the user, either by setq's in .emacs or
> interactivly through customize.
> 
> If it is done by other Lisp packages, they risk conflicting with the
> users choices.

What if package A has variable A1, which needs to be overridden by
package B because of variable B1?

For example, spam.el requires nnimap-split-download-body in nnimap.el
to be set if a statistical filter is selected, so the whole message
body is downloaded.

Thanks
Ted



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-01 21:20 Randal L. Schwartz
2003-03-01 23:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-03-03 13:41   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-03 15:56     ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-03-03 16:53       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-03 19:42         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-03-03 19:51           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-03 20:50           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-03-05 12:49   ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-03-05 20:38     ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-03-05 13:31 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-03-05 17:38   ` David S Goldberg
2003-03-06  8:01     ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-03-05 18:39   ` Reiner Steib
2003-03-06  7:55     ` Per Abrahamsen
     [not found]   ` <4nadg9fsw2.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu>
     [not found]     ` <rju1ehc501.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk>
2003-03-06 17:56       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2003-03-06 20:13         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-07 16:19           ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-03-07 16:36             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-07 17:33               ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-03-07 18:38                 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-07 19:46                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-03-07  9:02         ` Per Abrahamsen

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