From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Always-true predicate? Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:22:37 +0200 Message-ID: <837dn42ibm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875z2qoqc6.fsf@gnus.org> <87eehcsal4.fsf@gmail.com> <83zh002zjm.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0r42nca.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8112"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, rms@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 16:54:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lD87J-0001yr-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:54:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42244 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD87I-0002oP-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:54:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD7bx-0008TA-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD7bx-0001IJ-Fy; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4676 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lD7bq-0001Rw-6u; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:22:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:09:25 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265267 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:09:25 -0600 > Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Could you elaborate on how it makes it harder to customize? > > > > Isn't it clear that typing a function at set-variable's prompt is much > > less convenient than typing an atom, like a symbol, a string, or a > > number? For starters, it is much more typing. And then it's easy to > > make a mistake, which will require you to start over again. > > Oh, sorry I misunderstood you. I thought we only talked about > "customizing" in reference to `customize'. I almost never use "M-x customize" for variables, as set-variable is so much easier and faster. I expect many veteran users do the same.