From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs - minor mode behavior Date: 15 Feb 2007 05:13:57 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1171545237.688060.257450@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> References: <1171403693.631853.279610@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171546848 4174 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2007 13:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 14:40:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHgqh-0007fV-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHgqg-0003dX-R9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1171545247 27087 127.0.0.1 (15 Feb 2007 13:14:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:14:07 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1171403693.631853.279610@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 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: p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145630 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:41235 Archived-At: > Also - I've read quite a few posts in this group, and it seems like > most folks lean toward using customize as opposed to hand > editing .emacs. Am I making things harder on myself? It depends on what you're doing, some modes don't properly support customize and of-course you can't write elisp programs in customize. But where you can use customize it is useful. I use it for most of my customizations, but some still live in elisp.