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Re: Configuration files vs customization
From: |
Eduardo Ochs |
Subject: |
Re: Configuration files vs customization |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jan 2023 20:15:08 -0300 |
On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 at 13:34, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com> wrote:
> (...)
>
> in the course of my transition from XEmacs to Emacs I meanwhile have
> reached the point of getting Vm running under Emacs. But my first at-
> tempt utterly failed. After some experimenting and checking variable
> values with "C-h v" I came to the conclusion that at least in some vari-
> ables' descriptions the remark "You can customize this variable" really
> meant "You HAVE TO customize this variable".
>
> (...)
>
> How do others solve these configuration problems?
Hi Rainer,
I use customize a bit, but I avoid it as most as possible. My ~/.emacs
has (something equivalent to) these two lines,
;; See: (info "(emacs)Saving Customizations")
;; (find-file "~/.emacs.custom")
(setq custom-file "~/.emacs.custom")
(load custom-file)
and in most cases I "customize" packages by putting in my ~/.emacs
blocks of code consisting of a setq preceded by elisp hyperlinks that
point to my notes about that variable.
My experiments with alternatives to customize are described here:
http://angg.twu.net/eev-customize.html
Cheers,
Eduardo Ochs
http://angg.twu.net/#eev
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