RE: beginner questions

[Drew Adams]

> > [Asking because I belong to the camp that dislikes customize but still
> > sometimes is forced to use it]
> 
> My knowledge of Emacs is rusty, but from what I remember, usually you could
> do without customize what you could do with customize.

Yes, of course you can.  It's just Lisp.  But it's not just setq - that's the
point.  If you want to use `customize-set-variable' and so on, no problem.