Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

>> I just hate its UI.
>
> If a first year student of mine cannot distinguish
> data and code (s)he'd get an F grade. customize does
> that.  Proof of that is that it throws random crud at
> my init file when I am not looking.  Mostly I get
> away by keeping the custom file as its very exclusive
> garbage dump.  But with all my care it still
> occasionally stomps my (ie my init's) toes.
>
> So no customize is not written for wimps, its written
> by wimps

Of course Customize is not "cool", and Lisp is, but
that's not the most important reason why I dislike
it. It is just so unpleasant to navigate those screens
and get an overflow of information and text, back and
forth. A couple of screens later, you have forgotten
what it was you were to customize, and even more, why
you set out to do that in the first place!

Compare that to just adding a single `setq' line in
.emacs... The English garden is only pleasant for
recreation. For work, we need French gardens, or even
better, a Japanese rock garden.

And, at one point or another, you want to write "real"
Elisp anyway (as in functions, not just settings), and
at that point, the "setq Lisp" in .emacs is a baby-step
as good as any.

At the other end of the spectrum, to just write Elisp
all day long to be more "productive", until you are so
productive, and your swords that sharp, that if you
ever were to *use* them, you would single-handedly push
back the Orc horde of Mordor! That's just an OCB trap
you should be aware of.

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