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Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file
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Rob Thorpe |
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Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file |
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7 Nov 2003 09:19:36 -0800 |
gareth.rees@pobox.com (Gareth Rees) wrote in message
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> Dan Anderson wrote:
> > I was wondering what other people have in their .emacs file. I would
> > like to challenge everyone to add at least one cool tip / trick to:
>
> Here's my cool tip:
>
> Delete your .emacs!
>
> This means that you can go to a new machine, run Emacs on it, and it
> works just the same as on your old machine! No more confusion over
> non-default keybindings, unusual settings for variables, bizarre mode
> hooks, etc. And when you find a problem you know it's really to do with
> Emacs and not with some "cool" trick you copied out of someone else's
> .emacs without understanding it.
I'm not so extreme.
I would say:
- Never use lisp code you don't understand
- Customize as little as you can possibly bear with
- Don't customize things because its cool
- Examine your .emacs code every few weeks, remove what isn't used.
- Remember everything that's in it.
For all my good intentions my biggest .emacs file is 80 lines long.
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, (continued)
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Bruce Ingalls, 2003/11/06
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- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Dan Anderson, 2003/11/07
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- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Artur Hefczyc, 2003/11/08
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