From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50627 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: convert from setq to customization Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:13:23 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86u1em4wdn.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4nadg9fsw2.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nof4o2xc1.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046981668 16840 80.91.224.249 (6 Mar 2003 20:14:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:14:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Thu Mar 06 21:14:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18r1l4-0004NQ-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:14:26 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18r1kQ-0005S4-00; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:13:46 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:14:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA07398 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:14:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 24863 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2003 20:13:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24858 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 20:13:27 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 6 Mar 2003 20:13:27 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h26KDNdD027315 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:13:24 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030306:ding@gnus.org:e38b972a2c95ba86 X-Hashcash: 0:030306:ding@gnus.org:e38b972a2c95ba86 In-Reply-To: <4nof4o2xc1.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:56:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50627 Ted Zlatanov writes: > 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. This crossed my mind as well... spam.el should not setq n-s-d-b. Either spam.el should bind the variable temporarily, or if that doesn't work, we can add a undocumented variable nnimap-using-spam which spam.el can set instead.