From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How big are your customisations? Date: 28 Jul 2006 07:14:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1154096073.265251.325220@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1153907142.547631.259450@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154097641 22797 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2006 14:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 16:40:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6TVr-0001JL-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6TVr-0005iN-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1154096078 15908 127.0.0.1 (28 Jul 2006 14:14:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:14:38 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1153907142.547631.259450@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140710 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36335 Archived-At: Davin Pearson wrote: > Here is a quote from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs) > > > Many advanced users have .emacs files hundreds of lines long, with idiosyncratic customizations that cause Emacs to diverge wildly from the default behavior. > > My own customisations total 15,343 (that's 15 thousand) lines. > > I have split my .emacs file into 85 files to simplify things. > > My code includes all of my font preferences, > an automated backup system, a C++ > class browser and many more features. > > I was wondering how many lines of Lisp code > other people out there use. How many lines > do people like Eli Zaretskii, Richard Stallman > or Donald Knuth use... > > I realise that a posting to this forum will > only be read by hard-core Emacs types, > but it would be interesting to find out > nonetheless! Everyone here uses loads of customization compared to me, my .emacs file is only 100 lines long. It was once much longer, but it has become shorter over time as more features have been put into Emacs that I had attempted to do myself - and normally done messily. Keeping it fairly small seems to make upgrading easier too.