From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs FAQ for Emacs 22.1 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:02:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200512132316.jBDNGEO16328@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <85ek4gmuuq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200512132347.jBDNlSe17188@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134598886 25693 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 22:21:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alserkli@inbox.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 23:21:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmezR-00077a-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:20:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emf03-0001ar-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:21:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Emcre-0005Td-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:04:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Emcrb-0005Qy-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emcra-0005Qh-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Emcti-0008AQ-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:06:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Emcpf-0005ed-82; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:02:35 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200512132347.jBDNlSe17188@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:47:28 -0600 (CST)) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47730 Archived-At: 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. We have no plans to deprecate the writing of setq calls, or to stop teaching people to customize Emacs that way. However, that's a slightly different question from the one at hand. The question at hand is, when giving beginners advice about how to customize Emacs to do a specific thing, which method or methods should we tell them to use? I think it is good to customize for this.