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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 08 Apr 1997 04:08:29 +0200
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<mac@silicon-sorcery.com> writes:

> % cd /usr/local/x20/lib/xemacs-20.1-b11/lisp
> % ls -1 */*.el.gz | wc -l
>     1015
> 
> There are 1015 elisp files; if every one of those gets a customize
> menu, we are going to get lost!!!

It's not that bad.

1) The customize menus are updated only for the things that are
   actually loaded.  The more elisp files you load, the more items
   you've got in the menus.  I don't think you will ever load so many
   of them as to present a threat to the menu structure.

2) You needn't use the menus -- for example, you can always use
   `M-x customize RET <topic> RET', or `M-x customize-variable', etc.

> 	[And someone whips up a code snippet that we can all copy and
> 	insert into our modes that implements this, and does it in
> 	such away that the Right Thing happens if the user doesn't
> 	have custom???

That code is included e.g. in the filladapt customization, but it's
quite irrelevant for the packages that are bundled with XEmacs.

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