Eli> custom file if its basename was something special, or perhaps one of a
Eli> small number of fixed names?

(locate-user-emacs-file "custom.el")

perhaps?

Anyway, I've uploaded the patch so that is is not lost. Maybe in the future
someone revisits this and finds it cool.
I just want to get rid of the mandatory (load custom-file) in my init.el
and not break other people's current configs.

Again, I'm "preaching Emacs" among my students and the question of why
custom-file is not loaded automatically if you
define it is coming up only too often.

These youngsters have made me rethink many things... I like teaching :-)
keeps me vigilant

/PA


On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 16:26, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:15:50 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> said:
>     Eli> Would it perhaps help if we could support automatic loading of the
>     Eli> custom file if its basename was something special, or perhaps one
> of a
>     Eli> small number of fixed names?  If we choose a name that is
> unlikely to
>     Eli> be in wide use, all people will need is to rename their files (and
>     Eli> modify the init file).
>
> If weʼre going to do it, then it should have one and only one option.
>
> (locate-user-emacs-file "emacs-auto-custom.el")
>
> perhaps?
>
> Robert
> --
>


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