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William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

> Brent B. Powers writes:
>
> >Wouldn't it be lovely if one could have a custom-file attached to
> >particular customization groups? {ahem, hint, hint}  In that way, I
> >could have my gnus stuff go to either .custom or .gnus, my
> >customization stuff go to .custom, et alia
> 
>   Ohhh ohhh - I like this idea.

Guess I have to explain *why* it would be a major bother, then. 

Using groups would be the wrong mechanism.  Each customization option
can belong to any number of groups, from zero and upward.  The same is
true for the groups, so the result is not a nice hierarchy, but a
directed graph.  It can even be cyclic.

One add an extra keyword argument to defcustom and defface indicating
for each option which file they belong to, but that would be a lot of
extra work for the customizer, for no gain I can see.

> -Bill "Thinking about making W3 use defcustom" Perry

Are you willing to make Red Gnus a prerequisite for w3?

I'm not changing AUC TeX until Red Gnus has become Gnus 5.5.