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Re: External programs and resources
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Alex Schroeder |
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Re: External programs and resources |
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Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:08:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden> writes:
> - A customization group, maybe named "external-programs"?
Normally developers define a group, and when defining variables, they
assign the group with it.
Custom allows you to do the inverse, too: Define a group together
with all the variables belonging to it -- the members. Therefore
somebody could get started working on something like that, and post
his defgroup statement here for others to consider. Once we are
happy, such a file would be easy to add to Emacs -- no other files are
touched! And it wouldn't run against the feature freeze. :)
There is a page on the Emacs Wiki, for example, where people tried to
collect the variables newbies are most likely to customize so that we
can just offer them in a "Most Useful" group or something like that.
Unfortunately, it seems that people lost interest (including me,
ahem).
Alex.
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