Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA

[Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 06:49, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> writes:
>
> > Basically Custom is an unfinished system, it's code is not easy to
> > understand, and it does not integrate with the rest of Emacs well, it
> > especially does not play well with configuring things from init.el
> > file.
>
> Custom is basically a finished system, and the whole point of it is to
> make things work so that users will not have to understand it.
>
> And contrary to your statements, it integrates with the rest of Emacs
> quite well.  For example, this doesn't work:
>
>   (setq pixel-scroll-precision-mode t)
>
> But this does:
>
>   (custom-set-variables '(pixel-scroll-precision-mode t))
>
> Same goes for `scroll-bar-mode', and so on.
>
>
 Where is that documented?

I don't understand customize and I know a few other people from the
#emacs IRC channel who are also long time Emacs users and who also say
that they don't understand customize well enough...

A few weeks ago I made a video - called "Org for non users" - about
why I find some parts of Emacs that are "for users" very hard to
understand, and showing how I am trying to make them more
understandable by "non users" like me... and I would really like to do
something similar for customize in the next few years.

The video is here:
  http://angg.twu.net/2021-org-for-non-users.html

Cheers,
  Eduardo

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