From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:51:02 +0200 Message-ID: <861soitdq1.fsf@zoho.com> References: <1502373086.1171866.1069247696.71F9FED4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8660dvuzsr.fsf@zoho.com> <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502459766 4541 195.159.176.226 (11 Aug 2017 13:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:56:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 11 15:56:02 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAPs-0000ep-BN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:55:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAPy-0003RW-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAPJ-0003QZ-BU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAPF-0003Qi-CZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52040 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAPF-0003Pf-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAP2-0006FT-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:sbrFmrHUTSIFr0sREB2CUMX22K8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113981 Archived-At: Ronald Fischer wrote: > Funnily, when you search the FAQ how to do > certain common configurations, the > suggestions always say that you should modify > your .emacs.... Kind of contradiciting. Well, what is it that you want to configure? I would say that 98% of what people do with Configure (that is productive, discounting learning to figure out how to get lost in the UI) - 98% of this can be done with (setq whatever some-value) which is as simple as it gets. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573