From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup] Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:31:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <98273be3-e271-4768-8932-f8f2a36e7249@googlegroups.com> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> <877g9xkiic.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390059313 32627 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 15:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:35:13 +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 Jan 18 16:35:21 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 1W4Xvc-0001Gd-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:35:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4Xvc-0008HK-FP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:35:20 -0500 X-Received: by 10.182.243.166 with SMTP id wz6mr2964396obc.19.1390059116451; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:31:56 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.30.169 with SMTP id t9mr104324igh.2.1390059116392; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:31:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!6no16720049qao.1!news-out.google.com!gg4ni8086qab.0!nntp.google.com!p15no21057553qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <877g9xkiic.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.19.164; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.19.164 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:31:56 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203211 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:95480 Archived-At: On Saturday, January 18, 2014 10:12:26 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Rusi writes: > > lexical vs dynamic and what not are above my head > In general, it is not difficult, though perhaps you > meant at a higher level. > dynamic: whenever something is mentioned, that is > looked up (so what it is depends on *when* it is looked > up, that is the "dynamic"/time part) > lexical: everything is encoded at some point, and what > you change after that, even if that influenced during > encoding, does not affect what has been encoded - > lexical, as in a heap of text > This sounds like a big deal but you never notice this > distinction. At least I don't. Yeah I know the theory However if you see the parallel thread "Impossible to set org mode variable" it is almost analogous to this scenario: You have C code like this: int x; x = 3; printf("%d\n" x); and instead of seeing 3 you see 42!! Now how much this is due to - dynamic vs static - unexpected autoload cookie sequencing - recent library churn Ive not been able to figure out