From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Easy Customization node in Info says save in your .emacs Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:44:45 -0700 Message-ID: References: <003301c4db29$d3bae700$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102359358 19962 80.91.229.6 (6 Dec 2004 18:55:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:55:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 19:55:50 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 1CbO1W-0001EN-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:55:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbOBH-00038D-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:05:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbOBA-000383-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:05:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbOB9-00037l-MC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbOB9-00037b-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.5] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CbO12-0004Tf-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CbNrN-0002CT-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:45:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CbNqr-0001yF-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:44:49 +0100 Original-Received: from 170.207.1.200 ([170.207.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:44:49 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 170.207.1.200 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:44:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.1.200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:30762 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30762 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. -- Kevin Rodgers