From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21784 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Rafferty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus fucks up my custom settings Date: 05 Mar 1999 09:57:04 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159824 24707 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:23:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:23:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20969 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:59:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB16132; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:58:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 05 Mar 1999 08:58:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA13942 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:58:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from piinbh1.ms.com (firewall-user@piinbh1.ms.com [199.89.64.71]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20954 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:58:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by piinbh1.ms.com (8.8.6/fw v1.22) id JAA28019 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:57:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unknown(144.14.9.190) by piinbh1.ms.com via smap (4.1) id xma027574; Fri, 5 Mar 99 09:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from sag3.morgan.com (sag3.morgan.com [144.14.8.198]) by safid1.morgan.com (8.8.5/hub+ldap v2.3) with ESMTP id JAA07732 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:57:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (craffert@localhost) by sag3.morgan.com (8.8.5/sendmail.cf.client v1.05) id OAA04906; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:57:04 GMT Original-To: GNUS Mailing List Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: ""xJff%{>hr-{:QXl"Xk2O@@(+F]e{"%EYQiW@mUuvEsL>=mx96j12qW[%m;|:B^n{J8k?Mz[K1_+H;$v,nYx^1o_=4M,L+]FIU~[[`-w~~xsy-BX,?tAF_.8u&0y*@aCv;a}Y'{w@#*@iwAl?oZpvvv X-Y-Zippy: I just bought FLATBUSH from MICKEY MANTLE! In-Reply-To: Didier Verna's message of "05 Mar 1999 10:15:33 +0100" Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070077 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.77) XEmacs/21.0(beta63) (Pyrenean63) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21784 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21784 Didier Verna writes: > I see 2 solutions to this problem: either you require each library > from which you'll twiddle a variable (but then you might load libs that the > user wo't use), or you use defcustom instead of defvar (but then you have code > replication). Or maybe the concerned variables should be defined in a separate > file instead of in their respective libs ? I vote for your third solution. This seems to be the simplest way to deal with large packages with lots of variables, all of which need to be customized. vm, cc-mode, and w3 all do it this way, and it makes sense. -- Colin