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"If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up"

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38696 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up"
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 08:35:54 +0800

>>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

RMS> Would you please show us what this looks like?

$ cat .emacs
(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :foundry "PfEd" :slant normal :weight normal :height 218 :width normal)))))

There is no way offered to "decompile" this into something that all
those Emacs manuals talk about when introducing how to edit your .emacs
file.

The user is no longer in full control, but must maintain it via an
interface (the menus.)

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