Re: You can set this variable in your initialization file.

[Robert J. Chassell]

   Many variables cannot usefully be set in the .emacs file and yet C-h v
   keeps telling me "You can set this variable in your initialization
   file".

I don't know of any.  Are you saying that parts of Emacs are not
written in Emacs Lisp and such parts are important to users?
Certainly, parts are not.  A .emacs file is written in Emacs Lisp and
evaluated.

Many who know Emacs set their `custom-set-variables' and
`custom-set-faces' expressions in their .emacs files because `M-x
customize' is a user interface that is sometimes convenient and
sometimes not.  A novice must always be ignorant initially.  It would
be bad for such a person not to be reminded about a customization file
such as .emacs.  They might do everything, even inconvenient
customizations, in a customize buffer, unless you are planning to
remove the existing phriase `You can customize this variable' or
change the link from the word `customize'.

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