Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: While I agree with that comment (and being a mathematician I have an even stronger tendency to do that) I fail to see what you mean here. I can see that customize is working in some cases (i.e. for an XEmacs hacker like me needing to edit alists of plists) which convinces me that it is worthwhile to try to make it work. However I do not consider the original problem "How to make Emacs easy to configure for newbies" solved at all. In fact now that Per has made the first few steps we can finally begin see clearly where the real problems lie. Jan