Re: :file keyword for Customize

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

> Drew Adams writes:
>
>  > This is about letting an individual option or face (or perhaps group) decide
>  > where it is stored (and consequently let users decide when it is loaded). The
>  > place to do that is in `defcustom' and `defface' (and perhaps `defgroup').
>
> I think this is a YAGNI, and likely to lead to a plethora of confusing
> custom files which appear at random times (ie, when you first save a
> customization for a variable that targets that file).

I also think so. 

For me, using both a ~/.emacs.el and a ~/.emacs-custom.el is precisely
useful only because you have to edit the first one by hand and you can
leave the second one behind the curtain, you can even forget about it.

Having to forget about more than one file will make it harder to
remember the location of these files for the few occasions where
you'll have to edit them manually...

-- 
Bastien