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Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:56:21 -0500 |
The best way to make set-variable work buffer-locally depends on
whether and how we want to make Custom work buffer-locally.
We want to make Custom work buffer-locally. This is not super-urgent,
but it is very desirable for the long term.
For interactive use, `custom-local-buffer' seems to inconvenient
(even if it worked reliably, which it does not).
Of course this is not meant as an end-user interface. It is meant
as a mechanism for the end-user interface to use. For that purpose,
it is clean enough.
If we do
not care about making Custom set buffer-local values, the best thing
would probably be :set-local and :get-local keywords, as Richard
suggested. That _maybe_ could also be the case if we wanted to make
Custom work buffer-locally.
I had forgotten about custom-local-buffer. Now that I remember it, I
see no advantage in :set-local and :get-local. The :set and :get
functions can just as easily test custom-local-buffer.
Making Custom work buffer locally is very tricky. It does not seem
like something for before the next release.
If specific :set and :get functions fail to handle custom-local-buffer,
that is a bug. We can fix these bugs at any time. Would you like
to find some cases that fail, and fix them?
Adding a nice UI so that Custom uses custom-local-buffer is a
different job. We might not want to install that now; however, people
could start implementing it now, to be installed later.
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, (continued)
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, David Kastrup, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/07
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, drkm, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Lennart Borgman, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, drkm, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Per Abrahamsen, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Per Abrahamsen, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Lennart Borgman, 2005/01/04
- RE: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Drew Adams, 2005/01/04