From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tomas Nordin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:11:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87valu9oub.fsf@fliptop> References: <1502373086.1171866.1069247696.71F9FED4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8660dvuzsr.fsf@zoho.com> <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <861soitdq1.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502461520 3282 195.159.176.226 (11 Aug 2017 14:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:25:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 11 16:25:16 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 1dgAs9-0000L2-UC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:25:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAsG-0000SR-6f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAeu-00060A-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAer-0005Um-BL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:60944) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgAer-0005RB-4M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B75320CCF for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:11:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3xTRkR4Mkfzyl2 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:11:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <861soitdq1.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.66 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:113983 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > I would say that 98% of what people do with > Configure (that is productive, discounting > learning to figure out how to get lost in > the UI) - 98% of this can be done with > > (setq whatever some-value) > > which is as simple as it gets. I tend to use that approach as well. But I am helped some times using customize to browse options available in a hierarchical structure.