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
next prev parent 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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