Re: Settings

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> My point is that maybe we don't want to process all custom
> definitions in one single batch.  If we can identify specific
> needs with regard to particular custom variables, we could
> do something more sophisticated, and MAYBE we could make that
> work right for every user without requiring that the user
> figure out a solution that works right for all of them.

It's possible, but I think that sounds...  very ambitious.  But I could
see the case for saying something general like "customising hook
variables should happen before loading .emacs, because that will make
add-hook work", but even that would be controversial.  (Customising a
hook sets the variable to a specific value; it doesn't add functions.)

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