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Re: Enabling global-font-lock-mode
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> |
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Re: Enabling global-font-lock-mode |
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Date: |
25 Oct 2002 10:27:42 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>> I prefer to edit the .emacs directly, it's a greater learn effect and I
>> don't like to use things that I don't understand.
> Unfortunately it's also a greater risk that it won't work on future
> versions!
Actually, no :-(
There is much more thought put into and experience with maintaining
backward compatibility for hand-edited .emacs code than for
custom-generated settings.
That's also because even Emacs maintainers don't really understand all
the details of `custom'.
Stefan