From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Subject: Re: Easy Customization node in Info says save in your .emacs
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:56:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00db01c4dbe0$4d3d5980$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cp29au$cud$1@sea.gmane.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> > I believe the following text in the node Easy Customization in Info
is not
> > entirely correct:
> >
> > and to save settings permanently
> > in your `~/.emacs' file (*note Init File::).
> >
> > Should it not be something like "in your custom-file (defaults to
> > ~/.emacs)"?
> >
> > That change would make more complexity for beginners.
> > It is better not to let these obscure features get in the way
> > of explaining the normal case.
>
> I doubt even beginners would find the notion of a default custom-file
> name to be complex.
I agree and instead I think the beginners do have trouble finding out that
you could use custom-file. That was at least what I had.
- Lennart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-06 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-06 0:23 Easy Customization node in Info says save in your .emacs Lennart Borgman
2004-12-06 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-06 18:44 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-12-06 21:56 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2004-12-06 22:20 ` Drew Adams
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