From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HASM Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:09:27 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> 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 1502461390 9268 195.159.176.226 (11 Aug 2017 14:23:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:23:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (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 16:23:06 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 1dgApw-0001Wp-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:22:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAq3-0007Iz-2o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:22:59 -0400 X-Received: by 10.28.229.65 with SMTP id c62mr1577166wmh.11.1502460568033; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!d40no799488wma.0!news-out.google.com!m77ni6246wma.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c86e475b89d55f1a334ddc2ff1b5b982"; logging-data="15404"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/BAVfuZbdlRiS+HUaxuPt4JCEK90+bKR8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:k+mT3dzXb/RgIA27Go+JjwIsl7w= sha1:9EgqVhtad+0rghFjx31yMSbvAoA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219883 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:113982 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > I would say that 98% of what people do with > Configure ... 98% of this can be done with > (setq whatever some-value) > which is as simple as it gets. I tend to agree with this, and have my init file(s) full of those. However, and I forgot a bit all the details, but once I asked in the mail list that handles one of the packages I use how to setq something and was told to use configure instead, that was why configure was created, and that using setqs wouldn't do it properly. -- HASM