From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: beginner questions Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <87ca7ebe-f938-49e0-be30-ab140c34a101@default> 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; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380443464 30248 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2013 08:31:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:31:04 +0000 (UTC) To: Kai Grossjohann , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 29 10:31:06 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 1VQCPC-0007dY-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:31:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQCPC-0005A9-8e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQCOu-00053o-ON for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQCOm-0000Rm-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:33113) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQCOm-0000RM-0N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r8T8UYKv008118 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:30:34 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8T8UXU6016355 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:30:33 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt105.oracle.com (abhmt105.oracle.com [141.146.116.57]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8T8UWQ1029994; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:30:32 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:93743 Archived-At: > > [Asking because I belong to the camp that dislikes customize but still > > sometimes is forced to use it] >=20 > My knowledge of Emacs is rusty, but from what I remember, usually you cou= ld > do without customize what you could do with customize. Yes, of course you can. It's just Lisp. But it's not just setq - that's t= he point. If you want to use `customize-set-variable' and so on, no problem.