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: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:33:38 +0200 Message-ID: <86k226rtwd.fsf@zoho.com> References: <1502373086.1171866.1069247696.71F9FED4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8660dvuzsr.fsf@zoho.com> <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> <867ey9sva2.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502728495 22630 195.159.176.226 (14 Aug 2017 16:34:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:34:55 +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 Mon Aug 14 18:34:46 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 1dhIKC-0005L3-49 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:34:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhIKI-0007DO-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhIJV-0007Ae-SL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhIJR-0002jO-0X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49306 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhIJQ-0002ip-PX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhIJD-0002Pd-9e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:33:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:4ecgo3f2lhbB1ctU8C1zfcZ1/+k= 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:114023 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > And that's not hard to do: just use > `customize-variable' instead of `setq', for > user options. How hard is that? If you want > something shorter, define an alias... In all honesty, one could actually do just this, and it doesn't mean one would have to use the Customize UI which will never happen for many people anyway. It will be interesting to see how many `setq' has to be changed, and also if something "breaks" after changing it to the right way! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573