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Nice. However, I object to the "edit .emacs" part. I found out that most of the things that were in my .emacs could be set via M-x customize. I don't see the po
by astrobe_ 13y ago
Nice. However, I object to the "edit .emacs" part. I found out that most of the things that were in my .emacs could be set via M-x customize. I don't see the point of editing the configuration file instead of using the configuration interface, in particular when one addresses new users.
- rbanffy 13y agoBecause the power you get by having a Lisp program as your config file is what makes Emacs what it is. When my emacs starts, it checks things like the size of the screen and what windowing system is running and picks fonts and sizes accordingly.
- npsimons 13y agoIt depends. Usually configuration interfaces are made for two reasons: to be more "user-friendly" and to reduce the possibility of erroneous input that might confuse the parser. In this case, the emacs config interface is (arguably), not "user friendly", and emacs is usually forgiving of malformed input (it may stop loading your config, but it won't crash and it will tell you how to debug it).