Re: [elpa] master 9173a44 1/2: [Fix #12] Don't autodisable beacon on hl-line-mode

[Kaushal Modi]

> What exactly is wrong with that style, in an introductory text
that is meant to take the reader by the hand and lead him/her through
the magic of Emacs Lisp?

Nothing is wrong with the style. I was mainly pointing out that the
self-opinion style of text contradicted with what is recommended.
- It is recommended that the user does not manually edit the Customize
generated code blocks but a text I quoted says that the author did
that it was fine.
- Also the author does not use Customize most of the times whereas for
a new user it is recommended to do so.


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Kaushal Modi


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:00:50 -0400
>> Cc: Artur Malabarba <address@hidden>,
>>       emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>>
>> "Over time, I have set a considerable number of faces. Some of the
>> time, I re-set them using customize; other times, I simply edit the
>> custom-set-faces expression in my.emacs file itself."
>>
>> "I myself use customize for hardly anything. Mostly, I write
>> expressions myself."
>>
>> Who is that "I"?
>
> The original author of that manual, Robert J. Chassell.  This text was
> there since before the Introduction was added to the Emacs repository.
>
>> I think all that personal opinion text should be removed. Correct?
>
> I'm not sure.  The whole manual is written in that style, so doing
> that would mean completely changing its spirit.  Do we really want
> that?  What exactly is wrong with that style, in an introductory text
> that is meant to take the reader by the hand and lead him/her through
> the magic of Emacs Lisp?