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 00:41:35 +0200 Message-ID: <86valocv34.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502839182 31055 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 23:19:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:19:42 +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 01:19:33 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 1dhl7V-0007Yu-Fa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:19:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhl7b-0001gi-Q6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhl6l-0001gG-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhl6h-000131-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:18:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58326 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhl6h-00012A-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhkWl-0001Nw-0y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:41:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:x/vIIsnzOEYt/EsSjfoFKyZGvUw= 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:114050 Archived-At: John Mastro wrote: > my preference is generally to view the > variable's definition, see whether a custom > setter is defined, and decide if I need to do > anything about it. Oh, no! Now we need a couple of programs to do that as well! You know when you say something to a female that is appreciated and after that you are not allowed to say anything because she is afraid any elaboration will "ruin" it? It is the same thing here! ... Or is it the other way around? > It's not an error to use `setq' on variables > with custom setters. The byte compiler agrees. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573