Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:


Having sqlite3 interface as you describe would also benefit custom a
lot, the emacs .custom file is beginning to look like the Windows
Registry:-)

Some of the nice things that we might want in  a more structured world:

A. Organize, backup and restore customization per package -- at present,
   if you use a package for a while, then delete it, its customizations
   hang around in the custom file as an example.

B. Having custom options that hold large lists e.g. your favorite RSS
   feeds, gets unweildy

and a lot more ...
> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Especially for autosave and backup, they are a bit tricky to configure
>> so that Emacs doesn’t throw autosave and backup files all over the
>> place.
>
> Well...  not really.  Quoth the EFAQ:
>
>    For instance, to write all these things to ‘~/.emacs.d/aux/’:
>
>      (setq lock-file-name-transforms
>            '(("\\`/.*/\\([^/]+\\)\\'" "~/.emacs.d/aux/\\1" t)))
>      (setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
>            '(("\\`/.*/\\([^/]+\\)\\'" "~/.emacs.d/aux/\\1" t)))
>      (setq backup-directory-alist
>            '((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/aux/")))

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Thanks,

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