Re: basic settings of Emacs

Gottfried <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.gnus.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 26.02.26 um 19:05 schrieb [email protected]:
> Gottfried <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>>
>>
>> I have got a basic question.
>>
> 
> Different people will have different answers to your
> questions.
> 
>> 1.
>> Some people use their init.el file and put everything there
>> They have a nice overview of all their settings for emacs.
>> But it is very long.
>>
>> 2.
>> Some people use init.el and gnus.el and other .el files
>> to sort them topically.
>>
>> 3.
>> Some people use the Emacs customization to customize everything.
>> And besides the init.el file there appears then a custom.el file in
>> which you can´t change anything, but through customization options
>> everything is done.
>>
>> 4.
>> What option should one prefer?
>>
> 
> Three reasons for writing your own expressions for your
> init.el are:
> 
>     - You are setting values that cannot be set using the
>       "Easy Customization" mechanism (the variables are not
>       user options)
> 
>     - You have complex customizations (such as personal
>       function definitions) that cannot be set using the
>       "Easy Customization" mechanism
> 
>     - You include comments to describe the reasons for the
>       customization
> 
> Reasons for using the "Easy Customization" mechanism:
> 
>     - You are a new user who does not know the Emacs Lisp
>       syntax or types of values for writing correct
>       expressions, or even an experienced user who does not
>       know the types of values for an unfamiliar user option
> 
>     - You want to make a one-time change (using the ‘Apply’
>       button) that is not saved across Emacs sessions
> 
>     - You want to be able to remove/delete a customization(s)
>       (using the ‘Revert...’ button)
> 
>     - You want to separate user options from non-user variables
> 
>> 5.
>> I have got now init.el, gnus.el, custom.el, and other .el files
>> I like to sort out everything for an easy overview.
>>
> 
> Be careful to avoid duplication across these files.
> Expressions that set the same variable across two or more
> files can get out of sync, in which case an expression in
> one file can overwrite a similar, but different expression
> in another file.
> 
it is really difficult not to have duplications across files.
I hope I don´t have that,
but I am on the lowest level of emacs, so I am not sure.

thanks very much for that explanation,
it gives me an overview

Gottfried
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