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RE: Customize buttons that change user's custom file shouldaskforconfirm
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Customize buttons that change user's custom file shouldaskforconfirmation |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:37:53 -0800 |
... Another possibility to consider for this might be "Installed
Values" (or "Stock Values").
"Stock Values" is best. It will cause me to ask, `what is meant by
"stock values" ... ?'
Like anyone who is not a novice Emacs person, I follow the convention
and set values in my .emacs file. Only for features that I do not
understand, like fonts, do I use customize. And, of course when I
realize I made a mistake and can see a better face, I change the
customized values that I have set within my .emacs file by
`custom-set-faces'.
Asking what is meant by "stock values" is worthwhile for people who
have used Emacs for two decades or more -- for example, off hand, I
cannot remember whether `customize' considers stock values to be those
you see with `emacs -Q' or whether it uses the previously set values.
And the phrase is harmless to novices.
IIUC, the "standard" (stock, or whatever) values are those defined by
defcustom and defface; that's all - the values according to "the spec" (Spec
Values? Defined Values?).
This term does not determine a particular set of options; it refers only to
a particular kind of value for an option - any option. Emacs -Q just uses a
minimal set of libraries and features, so a minimal set of options. Standard
values apply to defcustoms and deffaces from all libraries.
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should ask forconfirmation, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/30
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should ask forconfirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/30
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should ask forconfirmation, Miles Bader, 2005/01/30
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Lennart Borgman, 2005/01/30
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Miles Bader, 2005/01/30
- RE: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Drew Adams, 2005/01/30
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Per Abrahamsen, 2005/01/31
- RE: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Drew Adams, 2005/01/31
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/01/31
- RE: Customize buttons that change user's custom file shouldaskforconfirmation,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Kim F. Storm, 2005/01/31
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/31
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Simon Josefsson, 2005/01/31
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should askforconfirmation, Lennart Borgman, 2005/01/31