From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Easy Customization node in Info says save in your .emacs Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:56:52 +0100 Message-ID: <00db01c4dbe0$4d3d5980$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <003301c4db29$d3bae700$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102371125 24722 80.91.229.6 (6 Dec 2004 22:12:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 23:11:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CbR5L-0000xn-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbRF7-0006MQ-5t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbRDR-0004v0-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbRDQ-0004th-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbRDQ-0004tQ-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.108] (helo=av9-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CbR3U-00011n-LU; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: by av9-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id F372F37EDA; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:10:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.183]) by av9-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D3B37E5E; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:10:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t5o58p158.telia.com [195.67.196.158]) by smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D2CD537E43; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:10:02 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Kevin Rodgers" , "Emacs Devel" , "Richard Stallman" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30774 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30774 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Rodgers" > Richard Stallman wrote: > > I believe the following text in the node Easy Customization in Info is not > > entirely correct: > > > > and to save settings permanently > > in your `~/.emacs' file (*note Init File::). > > > > Should it not be something like "in your custom-file (defaults to > > ~/.emacs)"? > > > > That change would make more complexity for beginners. > > It is better not to let these obscure features get in the way > > of explaining the normal case. > > I doubt even beginners would find the notion of a default custom-file > name to be complex. I agree and instead I think the beginners do have trouble finding out that you could use custom-file. That was at least what I had. - Lennart