From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beginner questions Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:07:13 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <8761tkzupa.fsf@informatimago.com> References: <87eh8d2qxi.fsf@informatimago.com> <87siwt12nd.fsf@informatimago.com> <87fvspyndr.fsf@informatimago.com> <6077a0bb-01ef-412a-a199-5f0c0b322e0e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380391823 13963 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2013 18:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:10:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 28 20:10:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VPyyG-0005ud-S7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:10:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPyyG-0001oH-87 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:10:24 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net nwiNTXyohVFEdw1RpvADZg90srmUQI13jdDcIPd7lLuVWqZXPb Cancel-Lock: sha1:YjgxZjExODU4Zjc2NWY1YmRjNTI1NGYwNGJkZjA0YjQwMTc5ZjdiOQ== sha1:nK6/hSvtuUbX2sdy87PFs4oftGM= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201454 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93724 Archived-At: Rustom Mody writes: > On Saturday, September 28, 2013 9:00:40 PM UTC+5:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon > >> M-x customize-variable RET blink-matching-paren RET >> >> >> M-x customize-variable RET default-major-mode RET >> >> >> You should also set auto-mode-alist >> (setq auto-mode-alist '(("." . fundamental-mode))) > > [To Pascal] > Why do you part recommend customize and part setq?? I would have proposed customize, but auto-mode-alist is not customizable. > [Asking because I belong to the camp that dislikes customize but still > sometimes is forced to use it] customize-variable is advantageous for the self-documentation of the thing, and to navigate in the groups of customizable variables. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/