Re: Poll: is ~/.emacs auto-migration worthwhile? Or too dangerous?
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"David" == David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
David> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> SL Baur writes:
>
> > There are exactly 0 valid usages of it and an apparently infinite number
> > of harmful ones.
>
> Nonsense. Custom is badly broken in this respect; it simply
> overwrites anything it can find, globally. Most of the time it
> doesn't cause any problems, but when there *are* problems the
> failure mode is catastrophic. The point of the automatic migration
> is to get people to use a separate ~/.xemacs/custom.el, and
> apparently it's been fairly successful. As a symptom, "Why doesn't
> my handwritten (custom-set-something ...) form DTRT?" used to be a
> FAQ, now it's very rare; I've seen it recently, but the time before
> that was literally years ago. Automatic migration was a good idea
> and still is.
David> Isn't the purpose of a poll _getting_ rather than _pushing_ opinions?
I've always seen (political) polls being used to push opinions, by way
of the methodology, so I guess it is not unheard of :-)
[...]
BTW I have no opinion, because ever since XEmacs 19.14 I have no .emacs,
and I remember at the time it basically did the right thing (from what I
read mostly because I did not use custom at the time)
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Nelson Ferreira
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