From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Upgrading suggestions Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:19:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317928824 8843 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 19:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:20:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 21:20:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtUS-0007Dg-FZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39836 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtUN-0001Em-03 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtUH-0001D9-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtUG-0005GB-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtUG-0005G3-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtUE-0007AM-04 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:06 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:05 +0200 Original-Received: from kgold by yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82491 Archived-At: I confess that I use the 'if it isn't broken, don't fix it' approach. Like you, I have a collection of ancient customizations. I only remove them when something breaks, which is rare. On 10/4/2011 1:28 PM, Perry Smith wrote: > I thought I would toss out this question to this group. > > Over time, hacks and tweaks that I've added to my emacs init files > get incorporated into the official release (usually with a much > better implementation). I assume I'm not unique in this area. > > How do others, when moving up to a new level of emacs, deal with > this? How do you (or perhaps you don't bother) find the things that > have moved into the production version and start using those versions > rather than the old version that you have. e.g. ruby mode is now > part of the distribution. There are countless examples of this. > > The biggest example I have is all of the "customize" features. I > still have old lisp code that is setting things up using old setq's > instead of the new customized stuff. That seems to work ok but sorta > bothers me. > > Thanks, pedz > > >