From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FW: [External] : Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 13:34:31 +0300 Message-ID: References: <834k6mdu7q.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8z12ud8.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21597"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , Drew Adams , Sean Whitton To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 07 11:39:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n5meD-0005P7-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:39:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50276 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n5meB-0005nI-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n5mct-0004L0-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:37:40 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:49531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n5mcr-0004nz-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:37:39 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.84.21.102]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000037FF2.0000000061D817EE.000034E2; Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:37:34 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Stefan Kangas , Sean Whitton , Drew Adams , "xenodasein@tutanota.de" , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:284403 Archived-At: * Stefan Kangas [2022-01-03 22:24]: > Sean Whitton writes: > > > On Sun 02 Jan 2022 at 05:14pm -05, Stefan Kangas wrote: > > > >> Drew Adams writes: > >> > >>> Customize should not write to your init file ... That's a bad Emacs > >>> design choice, IMO. It especially should not be the default behavior. > >> > >> +1, FWIW. > > > > Hmm, then where should it write to? > > IMO, something like > > (setq custom-file (locate-user-emacs-file "custom-file.el")) I have in ~/.emacs.d/init.el: (load "~/.emacs.d/custom.el") and in ~/.emacs.d/custom.el I have: '(custom-file "~/.emacs.d/custom.el") and that works well. Customized options are written in '(custom-file "~/.emacs.d/custom.el") -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/