Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:

> That is why I dislike a car with a dashboard that never let's me see
> anything; why I dislike car which requires my mechanic to purchase a
> special device to find out what is going on.
>
> The information should be readily available.

You can look into .emacs.  The information is not encrypted, it is not
binary.

> In Emacs, the Customize user interface enables a person to avoid
> having to learn to write
>
>     (setq baud-rate 28800)
>
> in his .emacs file, but it should make learning that easy.  After all,
> after first writing it, the person may need to change the speed,
> perhaps to 38400.
>
> It turns out -- I know this from experience -- that editing an
> existing value is often easier and quicker than reusing the
> Customize interface.

Then edit the value.  The information is not encrypted, it is not
binary.  I have done so on occasion.

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