From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: alserkli@inbox.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs FAQ for Emacs 22.1
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:52:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8564psmu5x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512132347.jBDNlSe17188@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:47:28 -0600 (CST)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
> While we decided not to introduce any changes that would render it
> impossible to set variables without Custom, there is little point
> in documenting other ways in the manuals.
>
> We currently _do_ document both ways more or less equally in the Emacs
> manual. The Custom way in `(emacs)Easy Customization' and the .emacs
> way in `(emacs)Init File'. I do not see any reason to change that.
> Several types of customization (say keybindings) can not even be done
> through Custom.
Which is a problem we need to address at some point of time. It is
something people complain about. There is little point in documenting
the use of Lisp where this interferes with Custom though.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-13 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 15:10 Emacs FAQ for Emacs 22.1 Alexander Klimov
2005-12-13 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-13 20:49 ` Romain Francoise
2005-12-13 23:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-13 23:37 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-13 23:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-13 23:52 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-12-14 20:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-14 5:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-14 8:59 ` Romain Francoise
2005-12-14 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 2:07 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-14 13:00 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-14 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-14 13:05 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-15 2:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
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2005-12-10 21:30 Romain Francoise
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