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Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmati
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:54:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:
> That is why I dislike a car with a dashboard that never let's me see
> anything; why I dislike car which requires my mechanic to purchase a
> special device to find out what is going on.
>
> The information should be readily available.
You can look into .emacs. The information is not encrypted, it is not
binary.
> In Emacs, the Customize user interface enables a person to avoid
> having to learn to write
>
> (setq baud-rate 28800)
>
> in his .emacs file, but it should make learning that easy. After all,
> after first writing it, the person may need to change the speed,
> perhaps to 38400.
>
> It turns out -- I know this from experience -- that editing an
> existing value is often easier and quicker than reusing the
> Customize interface.
Then edit the value. The information is not encrypted, it is not
binary. I have done so on occasion.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum