From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How big are your customisations? Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:05:14 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87odv3v779.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <1153907142.547631.259450@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154511635 9667 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 09:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 11:40:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8DDM-0002Nr-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8DDM-00012G-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y/Qj7FkxgXt/SYWe8myiuOD15es= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 39 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140787 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36413 Archived-At: "Davin Pearson" writes: > Here is a quote from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs) > >> Many advanced users have .emacs files hundreds of lines long, with idiosyncratic customizations that cause Emacs to diverge wildly from the default behavior. > > My own customisations total 15,343 (that's 15 thousand) lines. > > I have split my .emacs file into 85 files to simplify things. > > My code includes all of my font preferences, > an automated backup system, a C++ > class browser and many more features. > > I was wondering how many lines of Lisp code > other people out there use. How many lines > do people like Eli Zaretskii, Richard Stallman > or Donald Knuth use... > > I realise that a posting to this forum will > only be read by hard-core Emacs types, > but it would be interesting to find out > nonetheless! > Mine is about 750 lines. However, I am not counting little packages and utilities I have written to enhance my emacs environment. If I include these, then I have another 62,000 (I have a couple of large specialised packages I use). I also have a lot of other packages I have installed and use form time to time - these would add up to at least a few hundred thousand lines - it all depends on what you classify as customization. Personally, I wouldn't count add on packages or packages I've written - just stuff done in my .emacs file (or would normally put in the .emacs file as I've broken some of it off into individual files to make them easier to maintain etc). Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au