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: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:20:40 +0200 Message-ID: <86valsbvvr.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> <86378xskth.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812073057.GB20873@tuxteam.de> <86bmnlqlic.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502554894 17539 195.159.176.226 (12 Aug 2017 16:21:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 16:21:34 +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 Sat Aug 12 18:21:25 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 1dgZAC-00040V-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:21:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZAJ-0004M3-18 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55261) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZ9j-0004Ki-5d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZ9f-0002KR-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47261 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZ9f-0002JO-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZ9V-0001Zb-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:20:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:EDir+EnLP+LJPBUpIZy92W96j9Y= 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:114013 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > If you are coding only for yourself then > design is a simpler question. In that > context, do whatever you think works best for > you. Only you will know or care. Oh, yeah? And those poor techno-aristos that code for a world audience have no choice but to stick with a stupid idea which is having loose-cannon global variables all fended up with a mechanism that make sure no one fiddles with them the wrong way? Lucky us outlaws so far from the techno-capital we can afford to do things in a sound way. Here in the cyber-wild, not even the techno-technos bother to hunt us down! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573