Re: How big are your customisations?

[Tim X]

"Davin Pearson" <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:

> 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!
>

Mine is about 750 lines. However, I am not counting little packages
and utilities I have written to enhance my emacs environment. If I
include these, then I have another 62,000 (I have a couple of large
specialised packages I use). I also have a lot of other packages I
have installed and use form time to time - these would add up to at
least a few hundred thousand lines - it all depends on what you
classify as customization. Personally, I wouldn't count add on
packages or packages I've written - just stuff done in my .emacs file
(or would normally put in the .emacs file as I've broken some of it
off into individual files to make them easier to maintain etc).

Tim
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