From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87999 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [change the default registry names] Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:27:19 -0700 Message-ID: <87h8nw5wu0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87d0ymuo3q.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87efj2drl6.fsf@web.de> <87po2mj977.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87a7tqdmiz.fsf@web.de> <87a7tqudrp.fsf_-_@mat.ucm.es> <87k1stkdq0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87zi1pc88p.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524854420 13848 195.159.176.226 (27 Apr 2018 18:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:40:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m36214@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 27 20:40:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.34]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fC8I2-0003Tv-Un for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:40:15 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id b97d1b86-4a4a-11e8-950a-b499baa2b07a; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fC8K6-0006D8-M8; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:42:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fC8K4-0006CQ-5n for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fC8K3-0000V0-6i for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1fC8K1-0003NG-TJ for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:42:17 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fC8Ht-0003LM-2k for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:40:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MDTClXtrDg3+G5Pkl/JSGs+GK5g= X-Spam-Score: -0.9 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87999 Archived-At: Bob Newell writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Uwe Brauer 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