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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 38696@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up"
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:58:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ijDv6-0007VM-Cx@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fthdurh1.5.fsf@jidanni.org>

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  > (custom-set-faces
  >  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  >  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  >  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  >  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  >  '(default ((t (:family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :foundry "PfEd" :slant normal :weight normal :height 218 :width normal)))))

  > There is no way offered to "decompile" this into something that all
  > those Emacs manuals talk about when introducing how to edit your .emacs
  > file.

It isn't Lisp code.  It is just data, and the bulk of it is a plist
that is pretty obvious to edit.

It would be useful to explain the three outer levels of list structure.
A couple of lines of comment can explain that.
-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)







  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-23  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-21  0:02 bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up" 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-21  6:34 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-21  8:12   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-21 19:08 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-22  0:35   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-22 17:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-23  2:58     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-12-23  3:29       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-22  3:35 ` arthur miller
2019-12-22 17:49   ` Drew Adams
2019-12-23  0:36     ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-24  4:13     ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-24 16:08       ` Drew Adams
2019-12-25  2:37         ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-26  1:03           ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-08-06 10:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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