Re: why does M-w (kill-ring-save) hurt so bad?

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:27:59 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: Sure. I'm using the stock redhat 8 xemacs-21.4.8-16. Attached are the various bits of lisp that get sucked in at startup... These aren't necessarily pretty. They've been growing with me since 19.4 and they're kind of like the proverbial ratty old sweater that you won't give up. Also since I've been dorking around trying to find a combination that works, the custom.el is no longer how it was when this thread started (though loading vmlinux.S still sucks). <prattlings of an old fart> It occurs to me (for the millionth time) that there's got to be a better way... I mean the thing that set Jamie off in the beginning was perhaps a result of the fact that the customization of *macs is really a software life-cycle management problem. Except that there's only two reasons that people look at the software that is there init scripts: when they want to add support for a new *macs feature and when something's busted. I realize now that the custom stuff (started by Per, I think) was an attempt to address this issue... And by now everybody has seen the good, bad and ugly of application configuration (in the broader sense, not specific to *macs). I suppose that the correct answer lies in some new kind of configuration entity/engine that obviates most of the init lisp that people carry around. Oh well, someday... </prattlings> Oh yeah, and thanks Stephen (for being a voice of balance and reason in this community) -g