From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup] Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:42:26 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <877g9xkiic.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390020310 22723 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 04:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 04:45:10 +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 Jan 18 05:45:19 2014 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 1W4NmX-0002En-IN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41157 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4NmX-0001lG-3g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:45:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eC3d53Bo4mbkURUbQG+IAtpv9sI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203204 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:95473 Archived-At: Rusi writes: > lexical vs dynamic and what not are above my head In general, it is not difficult, though perhaps you meant at a higher level. dynamic: whenever something is mentioned, that is looked up (so what it is depends on *when* it is looked up, that is the "dynamic"/time part) lexical: everything is encoded at some point, and what you change after that, even if that influenced during encoding, does not affect what has been encoded - lexical, as in a heap of text This sounds like a big deal but you never notice this distinction. At least I don't. -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573