From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "ç©ä¸¹å°¼ 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)
next prev 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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