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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: How big are your customisations?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:49:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v964hhfttg.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 873bcllhiv.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net

On Fri, Jul 28 2006, Eric Hanchrow wrote:

>>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>     David> I guess I am cheating.  If I really want some
>     David> functionality, I put it into Emacs upstream, not my
>     David> customization files.
>
> Gosh, that is indeed cheating.
>
> Stop doing that.
>
> :-)

No, that's not cheating.  Quite the contrary, this is how many Emacs
nice features are born: "I thought WIBNI Emacs could ..., so I
implemented it: ..."

Maybe it's a general rule that active developers don't have many
customizations, because they try to improve the defaults instead.

Bye, Reiner.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-28 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-26  9:45 How big are your customisations? Davin Pearson
2006-07-26 10:02 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-26 12:01 ` Tassilo Horn
2006-07-26 12:20 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-26 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-27 12:12 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-07-28 16:00   ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4599.1154102463.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-28 16:55     ` David Kastrup
2006-07-28 18:18       ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-07-28 18:49         ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2006-08-01 14:06         ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2006-07-27 18:38 ` Edward O'Connor
2006-07-27 19:48   ` Formatting output [was: How big are your customisations?] Dieter Wilhelm
2006-07-28 15:37     ` Formatting output Edward O'Connor
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4580.1154078436.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-29 13:03     ` martin
     [not found] ` <mailman.4504.1153939928.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-28  9:56   ` How big are your customisations? Davin Pearson
2006-07-28 12:03     ` Checking for Emacs flavors, OS, graphics, ... (was: How big are your customisations?) Reiner Steib
2006-07-28 13:33     ` How big are your customisations? Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-30  1:25     ` David Hansen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4652.1154223520.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-05  5:28       ` Davin Pearson
2006-08-05  8:22         ` David Hansen
     [not found]         ` <mailman.4887.1154766208.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-05  8:48           ` David Kastrup
2006-08-05  9:34             ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-05  9:42               ` David Kastrup
2006-08-06 14:53           ` dsoliver
2006-08-06 18:51             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4592.1154093621.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-05  5:43       ` Davin Pearson
2006-08-05  9:53       ` Davin Pearson
2006-08-05 12:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.4892.1154780152.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-06  4:14           ` Davin Pearson
2006-08-06  5:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-06  5:31               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <mailman.4913.1154842313.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-06  6:04                 ` Davin Pearson
     [not found]             ` <mailman.4907.1154841207.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-13 19:09               ` David Combs
2006-08-14  3:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-28 14:14 ` robert.thorpe
2006-08-02  9:05 ` Tim X
2006-08-13 19:19   ` David Combs
2006-08-14  8:41     ` Tim X
     [not found] ` <mailman.4582.1154078449.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-13 19:15   ` David Combs
2006-08-13 20:22     ` Jiri Pejchal
2006-08-14 20:46     ` Dieter Wilhelm

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