From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:46:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> <874mojtxx5.fsf@debian.uxu> <20150415152734176578287@bob.proulx.com> <87twwgaxrm.fsf@gmail.com> <87y4lrk7ev.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429239029 25529 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2015 02:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 02:50:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 04:50:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YiwML-00086k-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiwMK-0000of-HZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:50:24 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.70.33 with SMTP id j1mr1181348obu.7.1429238809641; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:46:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.143.33 with SMTP id sb1mr3274igb.13.1429238809620; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:46:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!l13no6185343iga.0!news-out.google.com!db6ni17886igc.0!nntp.google.com!l13no6185339iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87y4lrk7ev.fsf@debian.uxu> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.94.114.39; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.94.114.39 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 02:46:49 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211489 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103771 Archived-At: On Friday, April 17, 2015 at 4:23:26 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > > I also suggest that people keep a journey log of > > their travels through the system. Memory is a fickle > > thing. Confirmation bias is always skewing our > > beliefs. The palest ink is better than the strongest > > memory. Keeping data on the reality can keep > > us objective. > > The best journey log in computing is the sweet > initialization files for Emacs and the shell (bash, > zsh, etc.). Those are actually programs - tools, not > mere "initialization". Say my system broke -- wouldn't boot. Had to tweak the kernel line of grub to boot it -- acpi=off That tweak was temporary -- so that line does not make it to /etc/default/grub So which initialization file should hold that info for the next time I need it?