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Subject: Re: How big are your customisations?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:49:47 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 28 2006, Eric Hanchrow wrote:

>>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>     David> I guess I am cheating.  If I really want some
>     David> functionality, I put it into Emacs upstream, not my
>     David> customization files.
>
> Gosh, that is indeed cheating.
>
> Stop doing that.
>
> :-)

No, that's not cheating.  Quite the contrary, this is how many Emacs
nice features are born: "I thought WIBNI Emacs could ..., so I
implemented it: ..."

Maybe it's a general rule that active developers don't have many
customizations, because they try to improve the defaults instead.

Bye, Reiner.
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