Andy Piper writes: > Seems reasonable to me :) > > Incidentally you need to know this information whether you use setq, > custom-set-variables or jde-set-variables _programmatically_. I think > mandating the use of the (poor) customize gui is awful. > Andy,
The only people who complain about it are precisely the people who don't read the doc. I've explained why the JDEE requires use of customize in the JDEE user's guide. It's not an arbitrary requirement. The reasons are twofold: it reduces the tech support burden on myself and it enables the project file feature. I'd be glad to remove it as a technical requirement if somebody could suggest a way to implement the notion of project-local variables (as opposed, say, to buffer-local) variables that would allow use of custom but would not require it. Of course, this would lead to the return of the good old days of "power users" posting their .emacs files to the JDEE list so the rest of us can comb through them to find the places where they set JDEE variables incorrectly because they didn't read the doc or didn't read it carefully, or simply made a typo. It just escapes me why some people prefer to write Lisp when Emacs is willing to do it for them. I guess I'm just not a power user. - Paul
