From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:20:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83wo0kvala.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <62ff80b8ff943b698ef8c46849b8bc50@condition-alpha.com> <5ea7493f-fec4-4445-ab7a-1ad043285659@default> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33913"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 16:21:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5e5-0008fO-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:21:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59708 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5e4-000399-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5d6-0001uL-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5d6-0003HY-4Y; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4863 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5cx-0003QF-OC; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:20:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5ea7493f-fec4-4445-ab7a-1ad043285659@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:54:49 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256366 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:54:49 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > The question is ... whether any arbitrary, usually small, set of (setq X) or > > (face-spec-set Y) are better added to a hand-crafted init file, or done > > via Custom (so they end up in custom.el). The typical advice users get > > on Stackexchange and similar, is to choose either variant at will (or > > randomly), and to version control their emacs.d directory with git. > > FWIW,that's not the advice I give. This is the advice I give: > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/102/advantages-of-setting-variables-with-setq-instead-of-custom-el/106#106 In any case, I don't think we can be held responsible for incorrect or inaccurate advice given on other forums.