From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customization; std vs. personal libraries Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:55:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116526169 6227 80.91.229.2 (19 May 2005 18:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 20:09:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYpRH-0004HY-QB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 20:08:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYpTy-0006Em-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYpTQ-000611-7P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYpTL-0005xr-OC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYpTJ-0005u4-Qf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DYpQR-0008Nw-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DYpFl-0002aC-8d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:56:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:56:13 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:56:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26838 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26838 Per Abrahamsen wrote: > ken writes: >>Perhaps a step in that direction, along with a step towards being more >>user friendly, would be to implement user configuration files, i.e., >>ascii files containing variables and values for configuring emacs. > > > Eh ".emacs" is an ASCII file containing variables and values for > configuring Emacs. > > Are you being ironic, or complaining that the ASCII file uses the format > > (setq VAR VAL) > > instead of > > VAR = VAL > > ? nil Just kidding, -- Kevin Rodgers