Re: How big are your customisations?

[robert . thorpe]

Davin Pearson wrote:
> Here is a quote from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs)
>
> > Many advanced users have .emacs files hundreds of lines long, with 
> > idiosyncratic customizations that cause Emacs to diverge wildly from the 
> > default behavior.
>
> My own customisations total 15,343 (that's 15 thousand) lines.
>
> I have split my .emacs file into 85 files to simplify things.
>
> My code includes all of my font preferences,
> an automated backup system, a C++
> class browser and many more features.
>
> I was wondering how many lines of Lisp code
> other people out there use.   How many lines
> do people like Eli Zaretskii, Richard Stallman
> or Donald Knuth use...
>
> I realise that a posting to this forum will
> only be read by hard-core Emacs types,
> but it would be interesting to find out
> nonetheless!

Everyone here uses loads of customization compared to me, my .emacs
file is only 100 lines long.

It was once much longer, but it has become shorter over time as more
features have been put into Emacs that I had attempted to do myself -
and normally done messily.

Keeping it fairly small seems to make upgrading easier too.