From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Hardy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:06:12 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FABA6D4.5060203@cyberspaceroad.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068214179 17406 80.91.224.253 (7 Nov 2003 14:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 15:09:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AI7Iv-0007zd-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:09:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AI7Ha-0007ho-VD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:08:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AI7H0-0007fl-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:07:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AI7GT-0007YN-5J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:07:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.189] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AI7GS-0007YJ-NM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AI7GR-0003fj-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:07:03 +0100 Original-Received: from [80.128.20.146] (helo=cyberspaceroad.com) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AI7GR-0008U6-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:07:03 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, de-de In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13898 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13898 On 11/07/2003 12:27 PM Gareth Rees wrote: > Here's my cool tip: > > Delete your .emacs! > > This means that you can go to a new machine, run Emacs on it, and it > works just the same as on your old machine! No more confusion over > non-default keybindings, unusual settings for variables, bizarre mode > hooks, etc. And when you find a problem you know it's really to do with > Emacs and not with some "cool" trick you copied out of someone else's > .emacs without understanding it. Can you provide some lisp to put in my .emacs to do that? ;) Adam -- GNU Emacs 21.3.1 on Linux 2.4.20 RH9