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: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:13:04 +0200 Message-ID: <86mv70cqun.fsf@zoho.com> References: <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> <867ey9sva2.fsf@zoho.com> <86378xskth.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812073057.GB20873@tuxteam.de> <86bmnlqlic.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812080204.GC20873@tuxteam.de> <867ey9qf0q.fsf@zoho.com> <87wp69jcjt.fsf@fliptop> <864lt8eb36.fsf@zoho.com> <4c4b3808-6be2-4d84-9b5e-08f731ebdb53@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502842555 12727 195.159.176.226 (16 Aug 2017 00:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:15:55 +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 Wed Aug 16 02:15:47 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 1dhlzt-0002i8-IM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:15:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlzz-00026w-Vr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlzX-00026L-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlzS-0005I2-9O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37378 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlzS-0005FP-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlzD-0000Os-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:15:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:e5tpbYizToDFqLdLN9zyw7sDUY8= 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:114056 Archived-At: John Mastro wrote: > To be honest, I suppose I just find the whole > customize mechanism a bit ugly. No doubt. > Of course it doesn't generally make sense to > give much weight to such a vague aesthetic > concern, but in this case it's cost me very > little so far to humor myself. The "vague aesthetic concern" is also known as *intuition*, which is something one should train along any activity, and whose input one should always consider... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573