From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Size of startup files Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:00:59 +0000 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <8735abnw9w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <875yf9xvja.phibqa@vnoxvs.kbxpyjyhg.info> <875yf91ijd.fsf@yandex.com> <87sfic3rh7.sthdmid@kobkqe.esklhh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15415"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:xGbDcOasRdxX2g769QjQ+Q9Xrn4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 11:01:56 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxQ6F-0003uW-VB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:01:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxQ5f-0002Li-11; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxQ5X-0002L3-DI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:01:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxQ5U-0005Ka-EA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxQ5P-0002qq-B2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:01:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141101 Archived-At: On Monday, 21 Nov 2022 at 11:52, Bob Newell wrote: > However, I think the extent of it would stagger the > uninitiated, and this raises a practical point. When > attracting newcomers to emacs, they need to hear that you > don't have to eat the elephant whole, and that with time and > experience they will find their own best ways. Good point. I guess one way to look at it is that, given my numbers (a little over 4000 lines of customization but using Emacs since mid 80s), I have added 100 lines of customization approximately per year. Not that much... ;-) -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-11-13) on Debian 11.4