From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup] Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:54:32 +0000 Message-ID: <87wqhisp87.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> <6hrwqhkjfv6.fsf@sap.com> <87zjmgosx7.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <871tzrukc8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391014503 30263 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2014 16:55:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:55:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 29 17:55:10 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 1W8YPt-00011Z-OA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:55:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YPt-0002R9-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YPQ-0001wg-FX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:54:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YPL-0005Vn-Ma for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:54:40 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:48587) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YPL-0005UC-G8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YPJ-0005Hf-Ef; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:54:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jangai.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.67.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s0TGsWih031488 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:54:33 GMT In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:23:44 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 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:95755 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> for a bad back >> an old laptop at work, that I use for writing notes at meetings >> a cheap 14in laptop at home that I use most of the time there >> a desktop at home that has largely been outdated, but which I will >> probably put on some shelves so I have a stand up space at home also. >> a netbook which I use when travelling because it fits between my stomach >> and the plane/train seat in front. > > Sounds eerily similar to my situation (except that I use my home desktop > regularly, and that the two home laptops are Thinkpads rather than > cheap/netbook). I used to but expensive laptops, but CPUs have got fast enough, now, that the cheap ones are enough. And the expensive ones have gone all SSD and I've eaten my way through every hard drive I've ever bought; so the cheap ones are actually better. >> I use unison and sync my file space. > > I prefer using DVCS to sync up my files. Started doing that when CVS > acquired its "remote access" functionality. I tried that, but I dislike the explicit commit -- I move between machines based on the rest of my life, not based on computing need. I actually many of my DVCS working repos between machines; I might start a feature on one machine, continue on another, then commit on a third. Surprisingly this works, as most DVCS seem not to care which physical machine they are on. Phil