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bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up"
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up" |
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Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:58:08 -0500 |
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> (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.
It isn't Lisp code. It is just data, and the bulk of it is a plist
that is pretty obvious to edit.
It would be useful to explain the three outer levels of list structure.
A couple of lines of comment can explain that.
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Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2019/12/20
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", arthur miller, 2019/12/21
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", Drew Adams, 2019/12/22
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2019/12/22
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", Richard Stallman, 2019/12/23
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", Drew Adams, 2019/12/24
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", Richard Stallman, 2019/12/24
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2019/12/25