From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] master 9173a44 1/2: [Fix #12] Don't autodisable beacon on hl-line-mode Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:40:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83zizegbux.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151017213254.5317.59042@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <877fmjflkk.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445265684 5039 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2015 14:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kaushal Modi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 16:41:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoBch-0003ZP-Pe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoBch-0008VY-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoBcP-0008VT-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoBcL-0001uh-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:40:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:55979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoBcK-0001ud-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWH0070021D5M00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:40:14 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWH005L6231OZ10@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:40:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192106 Archived-At: > From: Kaushal Modi > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:00:50 -0400 > Cc: Artur Malabarba , > emacs-devel > > "Over time, I have set a considerable number of faces. Some of the > time, I re-set them using customize; other times, I simply edit the > custom-set-faces expression in my.emacs file itself." > > "I myself use customize for hardly anything. Mostly, I write > expressions myself." > > Who is that "I"? The original author of that manual, Robert J. Chassell. This text was there since before the Introduction was added to the Emacs repository. > I think all that personal opinion text should be removed. Correct? I'm not sure. The whole manual is written in that style, so doing that would mean completely changing its spirit. Do we really want that? What exactly is wrong with that style, in an introductory text that is meant to take the reader by the hand and lead him/her through the magic of Emacs Lisp?