From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:15:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4de2d78c-1e2c-4020-ac15-39c419921ba1@googlegroups.com> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389723631 15337 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2014 18:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:20:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 19:20:39 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W38bO-0005iE-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:20:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W38bO-0006yJ-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:20:38 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.123.136 with SMTP id v8mr3262392yhh.56.1389723337156; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:15:37 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.134.169 with SMTP id pl9mr85276igb.17.1389723336968; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:15:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!6no10236546qao.1!news-out.google.com!gg4ni2493qab.0!nntp.google.com!p15no14574456qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.34.244; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.34.244 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:15:37 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203123 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95392 Archived-At: On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:27:06 PM UTC+5:30, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-14, o godz. 01:24:34 > Rusi napisa=C5=82(a): > > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 8:15:05 PM UTC+5:30, Juanma Barranquero > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Drew Adams wrote: > > > > But (IMHO) too many people ignore Customize, often because they've > > > > gotten the impression somehow that it is for non-Lispers or wimps. > > > I just hate its UI. > > If a first year student of mine cannot distinguish data and code > > (s)he'd get an F grade. customize does that. > How lucky that John McCarthy was not your student... > No offence, just could not resist a (maybe lame) joke. I agree that the > distinction may be important. My logic professor used to say: "What > does it mean that a mathematician *identifies* two things? It means, > first of all, that he *distinguishes* them." Maybe it's similar here. He He! Yes that is so. Some of the most notable things in CS come from such 'mixups' - data =3D code in von Neumann machines - Universal TM swallowing TMS as data - g=C3=B6dels theorem More on my blog here http://blog.languager.org/2012/05/recursion-pervasive-in-cs.html But there should be some point to the mixup. I see things like the foll in my custom-file (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. ;; And I call the above crud '(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-firefox)) '(calendar-week-start-day 1) etc etc ) If instead it contained an sexp but not valid elisp eg ((browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-firefox)) (calendar-week-start-day 1)) there would be no such issue because then what could be in custom-file coul= d not possibly be in an elisp file and vice-versa