From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xdisaster Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:28:59 -0400 Message-ID: <87zm5aem44.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y7kyx7hu.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87d529xioa.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87slb3wc8b.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176582602 2128 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2007 20:30:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:30:02 +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 Apr 14 22:29:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hcosd-0008S7-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:29:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hcox3-0000DS-IO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hcowo-00008k-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hcowl-0008U8-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hcowl-0008Tq-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HcosK-0000VN-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hcorp-0007ed-PD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:29:05 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-70-18-202-48.ny325.east.verizon.net ([70.18.202.48]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:29:05 +0200 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-70-18-202-48.ny325.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:29:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-18-202-48.ny325.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nh5m84Wqomc6YH/gL4p+qOsLC5I= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42688 Archived-At: Tim X writes: This is possibly just a personal matter of taste, but I prefer to actually put any elisp writing towards new functionality rather than just simply setting some default values to customize behavior. For me, writing basic setq statements and simple lambdas for load hooks etc is far less rewarding than trying to write something completely new using elisp. This why I couldn't resist taking the opportunity to ask; I knew you'd write an enlightening response. Thank you, Tim. Especially the simple turn regarding functional elisp--I so need to get back to reading eintr and learning elisp.