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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [change the default registry names]
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:27:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8nw5wu0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADoYgq_+RMN5Dot49N1uT8xOOhwNNFWExv7uFe5QCixYgR9+VA@mail.gmail.com>

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately gnus-registry-marks cannot be customized! It is defined
>> via defvar.
>
> It seems almost too obvious to state, and probably contrary to
> accepted best practices ... but ... I never liked 'customize' for some
> things, in fact many things. When possible I prefer to explicitly
> override defvar default values with setq, after the relevant package
> has been loaded. This keeps my customizations--- with copious in-line
> comments--- in startup files which are easily synced between
> computers.

I don't much like customize itself either, but there are some tricky
situations that it handles quite well -- weird stuff with load-order. Re
syncing, you can always set a separate `custom-file' and keep that
somewhere special. You might even be able to comment it!

Eric




  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-27 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-26 12:52 registry seems to be saved for 27.0.50 any longer/Gnorb Uwe Brauer
2018-04-26 13:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-26 15:09   ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-26 15:18     ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-26 15:55       ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-26 16:35       ` [change the default registry names] (was: registry seems to be saved for 27.0.50 any longer/Gnorb) Uwe Brauer
2018-04-26 18:46         ` [change the default registry names] Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-26 19:19           ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-26 19:30             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-27  9:24           ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-27 16:59             ` Bob Newell
2018-04-27 18:27               ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-05-07  8:05               ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-07 23:43                 ` Bob Newell
2018-05-10  8:11                   ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-10 12:38                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-11 17:22                       ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-11 17:28                         ` Bob Newell
2018-05-07  8:07               ` [setq does not work] (was: [change the default registry names]) Uwe Brauer
2018-04-26 15:15   ` registry seems to be saved for 27.0.50 any longer/Gnorb Uwe Brauer

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