GNU bug report logs - #37627
Document how to bypass the Easy Customization interface

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Message #8 received at 37627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 37627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37627: Document how to bypass the Easy Customization interface
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 10:15:14 +0300

tags 37627 notabug wontfix
close 37627
thanks

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>  <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 07:55:11 +0800
> 
> On (info "(emacs) Easy Customization") we read
> 
> ...
> 
>        To browse and alter settings (both variables and faces), type ‘M-x
>     customize’.  This creates a “customization buffer”, which lets you
>     navigate through a logically organized list of settings, edit and set
>     their values, and save them permanently.
> 
> Please add:
> 
>     However certain older users are bad at using interfaces to set
>     variables and just want to set them the old fashioned way by hand
>     with setq in their .emacs file. It gives them more feelings of
>     control. For them, please see the final section below.

Sorry, no.  We do want users to use this interface, and those "old
users" already know how to use setq.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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