Re: emacs and guile (Re: SUGGESTION: gtk and xemacs)

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs as well. Jon> (setq text-mode-hook '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1))) Jon> what is lambda going to mean to someone who just wants to get their Jon> buffers auto-filled? How about M-x describe-function RET lambda RET or M-x info-query RET lispref RET m lambda expressions RET Jon> far worse: what about something like this? Jon> (custom-set-faces Jon> '(font-lock-string-face ((t (:foreground "blue3"))) t) Jon> '(font-lock-doc-string-face ((t (:foreground "blue3"))) t) Jon> '(font-lock-variable-name-face ((t nil)) t) Jon> '(font-lock-keyword-face ((t (:foreground "brown"))) t) Jon> '(font-lock-type-face ((t (:foreground "brown"))) t) Jon> '(font-lock-other-type-face ((t (:foreground "brown"))) t) Jon> '(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "red"))) t)) The forms (custom-set-faces ...) and (custom-set-variables ...) are not meant to be editted by hand. They are udated via Options -> Customize -> ... When you click the Save button for any customized variable or faces. Perhaps a leading comment should written before these forms pointing this out to a user stumbling into these lisp forms. Regards, Adrian Jon> how the heck is anyone supposed to be able to read that, let alone Jon> REMEMBER it when asked how to change the colors? Jon> i don't have any answers, but i do believe you are underestimating Jon> the amount of work required to customize some common, trivial items. Jon> i've been using emacs for years so i have absorbed a baseline amount Jon> of elisp knowledge just through osmosis. pity the new user who just Jon> wants to get some work done! Jon> at this point i have given up on customizing emacs to do precisely what Jon> i want. i just keep reading the newsgroups in the hope that someone Jon> will post a snippet of elisp that i can steal and mangle enough to Jon> work for me. :) so far i've been lucky... -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Straße 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MÜNCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com