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ken <gebser@speakeasy.net> writes:

> Perhaps a step in that direction, along with a step towards being more
> user friendly, would be to implement user configuration files, i.e.,
> ascii files containing variables and values for configuring emacs. 

Eh ".emacs" is an ASCII file containing variables and values for
configuring Emacs.

Are you being ironic, or complaining that the ASCII file uses the format 

   (setq VAR VAL)

instead of
  
   VAR = VAL

?