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: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:58:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87eewyr1f4.8.fsf@jidanni.org> <87fthdurh1.5.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="335"; 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 Mon Dec 23 03:59:11 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 1ijDw7-0018Bo-Ff for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2019 03:59:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52650 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDw5-000721-AC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:59:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDvz-00071u-Uo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDvy-0007VM-Nt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:59:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDvy-0007Th-H6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDvy-0005AQ-EF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:59:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 02:59:02 +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=B38696.157706989719809 (code B ref 38696); Mon, 23 Dec 2019 02:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38696) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Dec 2019 02:58:17 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50416 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDvF-00059R-CU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:58:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49716) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDvD-00059E-Kx for 38696@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:58:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDv7-0003wM-Sn; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ijDv6-0007VM-Cx; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:58:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fthdurh1.5.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:173655 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. ]]] > (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)