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>> I prefer to edit the .emacs directly, it's a greater learn effect and I 
>> don't like to use things that I don't understand.
> Unfortunately it's also a greater risk that it won't work on future
> versions!

Actually, no :-(
There is much more thought put into and experience with maintaining
backward compatibility for hand-edited .emacs code than for
custom-generated settings.
That's also because even Emacs maintainers don't really understand all
the details of `custom'.


        Stefan