Re: Customize Rogue
David Masterson <[email protected]> 13 Mar 2003 16:25:54 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.customize |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>>>> Per Abrahamsen writes: > David Masterson <[email protected]> writes: >> John Wiegley has a tool called initsplit.el on his web-site for >> breaking customizations into multiple files. >> However, you've got a good point that I can't think how customize >> would be able to find and set the customizations once they've been >> "split" into multiple locations -- regardless whether the split was >> done in customize fashion (a la initsplit.el) or via setq like >> things (a la set-activate). > Uh, does initsplit.el use multiple custom-set-variables? That is > guarenteed to cause problems whenever the user tries to modify the > variables. If so, it *really* should use setq (or a set-activate > woralike) instead. Yes, it does appear that initsplit.el uses multiple, package specific, custom-files which (I suspect) the package is expected to load as needed. For instance, he splits his Gnus customizations out into his gnus-init-file. BTW, initsplit.el plus a couple of examples of its use are at: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/emacs.html -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA