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Re: Enabling a command forever - too easy

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From: Barr3y Jaspan
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 17:09
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In article <9104160027.AA02107@icule.UUCP>, pinard%icule.UUCP@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (Francois Pinard) writes:
[ discussion about enabling disabled commands ]
|> Another `y RET' is sufficient to make the command permanent.

I would argue that "making the command permanent" is not something emacs lisp
code should try to do.  All it is going to do is add a sexp to the end of the
user's .emacs file, and that isn't always appropriate.  (For example, my
.emacs is a symlink to emacs.elc, which is a compiled form of my emacs.el. 
Adding something to the end of emacs.elc would be the wrong choice since it
will get blown away next time I compile emacs.el.)

Presumably, someone who wants to enable a disabled command permanently should
know or be willing to learn the one line of elisp necessary to make the change.

-- 
Barr3y Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu
Watchmaker Computing
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Subject: Re: Enabling a command forever - too easy
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