From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up" Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:08:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87eewyr1f4.8.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="146084"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 38696@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A7=C2=A9=C2=8D=C3=A4=C2=B8=C2=B9=C3=A5=C2=B0=C2=BC?= Dan Jacobson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 21 20:09:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7l-000brP-Lb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 20:09:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7k-0003OA-Hg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:09:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7b-0003O4-9s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:09:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7a-00016L-51 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7Z-00014i-Ux for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7Z-0001l9-Mh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:09:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 19:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38696 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38696-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38696.15769553386754 (code B ref 38696); Sat, 21 Dec 2019 19:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38696) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Dec 2019 19:08:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48774 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7W-0001ks-6Q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:08:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45381) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7U-0001kf-N2 for 38696@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33191) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7P-0000Ik-62; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:08:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iik7O-0008MZ-7O; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:08:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87eewyr1f4.8.fsf@jidanni.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:173610 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Let's say the user wants to make the font bigger. > In emacs he goes into the menu bar and picks "Options" > "Set > Default Font", makes it bigger, and then chooses "Save Options", which > pastes some "custom-set" code into his .emacs file > that even contains a warning "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", > meaning for the rest of his life he should just play it safe and stick > with the menus. Would you please show us what this looks like? -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)