Re: Feedback on new Customization

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

"Lance A. Brown" <labrown@splat.niehs.nih.gov> writes:

> I *REALLY* like it.

Thanks.

> On my 100Mhz SGI R4000 Indy w/ GNU Emacs 19.34b things take
> irritatingly long to happen.  Opening up a customization section is
> fast enough, but displaying a face or list of faces takes long enough
> to be really irritating.  I thought the elisp files might not be
> byte-compiled but they are.  I guess it just takes a bit of time to
> process the customizations.

Well, it takes up to 2 seconds to display the most complicated
structures on my ~100Mhz microsparc, which I believe is equivalent to
100Mhz 486 and quite a bit slower than your Indy.

The code has not been profiled yet, so there might be some savings
there.  However the library was not designed for speed.  Not that I
doesn't like speed, but part of the code stretches my capability as a
programmer, so I have had to concentrate my effort on making the
design and code as clear as possible in order to be able to maintain
it.

> Is the 'Set Default' button at the bottom of the page supposed to Set
> Default everything or just the objects in the top level heirarchy?  I
> have to select 'Set Default' on all indented objects that I've changed
> in order to have the new defaults set.

The `Set Default' button should set the default for all the options
that are currently marked as modified (i.e. [*]).

You also need to save the settings, either by pushing `Save', or
answering `yes' to the question on whether you want to save the
customizations when you leave emacs.

> Is the 'Set Default' button supposed to apply the changes I've made
> when I select it?  I have to 'M-x load-file .custom.el' in order to
> get my new defaults to activate.

The settings are saved in `.emacs', `.custom.el' is no longer used.