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Re: applying changes in .emacs


From: Thien-Thi Nguyen
Subject: Re: applying changes in .emacs
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:39:03 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

don provan <dprovan@comcast.net> writes:

> About the only rational I can think is documentation purposes, but I'd
> prefer a simple comment: "; this is twice the default value".

rationality is useful up to the point immagination takes over.
perhaps ~/.emacs is suitable also for expressing irrational ideas.

you can think of a 1/3600 Hz robot (hourly cron job) stashing its
state and self-modification hints/heuristics in ~/.emacs, for example.

thi


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