From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About how misspelled word are displayed Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 23:07:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <3993ee96-42e7-e597-f7d0-306003faa235@alice.it> <4bf8d1cf-5287-f74e-d6c5-938bbf295d6c@alice.it> <557766eb-48c0-4eaf-8c08-459b2376da8c@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494623305 2016 195.159.176.226 (12 May 2017 21:08:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 21:08:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (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 May 12 23:08:19 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 1d9HnO-0000Nd-Bb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 23:08:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9HnT-00060P-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 17:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Hn3-000609-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 17:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Hmz-0008HS-U3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 17:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38197 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Hmz-0008H0-O1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 17:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Hmq-0008CM-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 23:07:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:41dVVV4a4TAwiub6wq156aRHBw0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113010 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Yes, it can be difficult to find out which > things to customize. That's unrelated to the > question of whether to use Customize or Lisp > to set them. One of many reasons it is preferable to write code rather than to use Customize is that using Customize you get tangled into a jungle of unrelated things and that way it is difficult to find out which things to customize. > IOW, we now have not only Customize writing > to your `custom-file' or init file; we have > also the package system doing that. At least some of us do. > But if you mean the former (decided by you > but not necessarily coded by you) then the > previous discussion applies: Why not use > Customize to do that? 1. counter-educative 2. unpleasant (hitting buttons instead of typing) 3. imprecise 4. inflexible 5. ungeneralizable and ineffective (learing a UI instead of learning to edit files) 6. dependent (relying on a tool instead of your own skills) 7. the lamer's choise > Whatever face appearances you decide on, > Customize will save them to your `custom-file', > leaving your init file alone. If it is bad enough for my init file, I don't want it anywhere else either. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573