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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 38696 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up"
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:16:28 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> Let's say the user wants to make the font bigger.
> In emacs he goes into the menu bar and picks "Options" > "Set
> Default Font", makes it bigger, and then chooses "Save Options", which
> pastes some "custom-set" code into his .emacs file
> that even contains a warning "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up",
> meaning for the rest of his life he should just play it safe and stick
> with the menus.

I think the consensus here was that it's fine the way it is, so I'm
closing this bug report.

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