can either of you give examples of code or settings that you had that made behavior of new modes unpredictable because emacs started supporting the behavior you made the code or settings for?
On 10/25/18, Eric S Fraga <esfli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 25 Oct 2018 at 08:24, Tim Cross wrote: >> Likewise, started with Emacs 19 and I still have some code which I added >> back then in my init! > > [...] > >> The two big benefits from the clean up have been much faster start up >> (something which never really bothered me as I run emacs for weeks >> without re-starting anyway) and far more predictable behaviour when I >> try out or add a new mode (I often found my custom tweaks would not >> always work well with new modes etc). > > The second of these is indeed a benefit of cleaning up initialization > files. I have been doing so, in any case, just at a slower pace than I > should. I actually have been doing exactly what you suggest: using org > and tangling. > -- > Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.13-894-gf79545 > > -- The Kafka Pandemic: <http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com> The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it. And ANYBODY can get it at any time. "You’ve really gotta quit this and get moving, because this is murder by neglect." --- <http://www.meaction.net/2017/02/03/pwme-people-with-me-are-being-murdered-by-neglect>.
