[ILUG] emacs and w3

[Brendan Halpin]

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Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

>  Ar an 3ú lá de mí 10, scríobh Darragh :
> 
>  > Emacs seems to be a very confusing application 

If you consider it an application it is often confusing. If you
consider it a way of life, things get much better[1].

> I imagine it installs into a directory of its own, and that if you
> remove that directory, there shouldn't be any conflicts. 

Not even necessary to delete the directory, except to be tidy, if
you cut out references to it.

> However, you
> did mention that there seemed to be some individual customization
> involved; hopefully, removing any line that mentions w3 from you
> $HOME/.emacs file should get rid of it, 

Comment out or remove anything in ~/.emacs that mentions w3,
particularly anything like "(autoload ...)", "(require ...)",
"(load ...) or "(load-library ...)".

> but then I've this bad feeling
> that recent GNU Emacsen may have a configuration directory. 

No, but some configuration _may_ be shipped out to another file,
defined in ~/.emacs as the variable custom-file, e.g. (setq
custom-file "~/.gnuemacs-custom") -- if there is such a line, check
that file too. 

Brendan

[1] Except for ignorant comments from assorted heathens
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