GNU bug report logs - #14150
Customize within two Emacs sessions deletes saved customizations

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 20:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 14150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14150: Customize within two Emacs sessions deletes saved
 customizations
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 08:08:08 +0200
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> That does seem like surprising behaviour; I agree.  I can also see
> somebody going "I really want to save the current customisation state in
> this particular Emacs, no matter what I've done elsewhere", which is
> what the described behaviour is.
>
> Does anybody have an opinion here?

Nobody chimed in, but I think the current behaviour is basically
correct -- saving the current customisation state is the least
surprising thing to do here, instead of trying to merge the state from
several Emacsen.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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