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From: tolugboji <tolugboji@protonmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>,
	"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: User setup for emacs
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:35:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4wbnCC8SX20OCeZmuS8KOwjT1XbIDo9ggg1_2Llax3orkVQWFmS1OAP9J5dZ_-NljxZ4_8ObX1xzgVzJFbVknsbzL3uTbPCxZbnahVMIw0=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54887F0C915AD8F17D3E72D4F3B49@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at 6:31 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > I set custom-file to another file - ~/.emacs.custom - because I don't
> >
> > understand customize well and I used to feel very scared everytime
> >
> > that customize changed something in my ~/.emacs without showing me
> >
> > what it was doing. The part of my ~/.emacs that sets this is:
> >
> > (setq custom-file "~/.emacs.custom")
> >
> > (load custom-file)
>
> IMHO, everyone should define `custom-file', and thus keep Customize's maintenance of the code it generates away from the code you write in your init file. To me, this is common sense. But I was unable to get Emacs to even recommend using` custom-file', let alone programmatically
>
> encourage (not quite enforce) its use.

Quite unfortunate.  It takes a lot of convincing and changes very slow.
I would like to ask if the link to the user-customisation files should
be done from ~/.emacs.d/init.el.

Is the latest way to do so in ~/.emacs.d/init.el rather than from ~/.emacs?






  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-10 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-08 15:30 User setup for emacs tolugboji via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-08 16:16 ` tolugboji
2021-10-09 10:03   ` tolugboji
2021-10-10 14:19     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-10 14:33       ` tolugboji
2021-10-10 15:41         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-10 15:47           ` tolugboji
2021-10-10 16:45             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-10 17:11               ` tolugboji
2021-10-11  0:04                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-11  1:23                   ` tolugboji
2021-10-11  3:09                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-10 18:00 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-10 18:14   ` tolugboji
2021-10-10 18:31   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-10 18:35     ` tolugboji [this message]
2021-10-10 19:02       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-10 19:11         ` tolugboji
2021-10-11  0:02           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-10 23:59     ` [External] : " Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-11  0:34       ` Drew Adams
2021-10-11  3:13         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
     [not found]           ` <SJ0PR10MB5488088380C0302344DA8E15F3B59@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]             ` <87r1cr1ql2.fsf@zoho.eu>
2021-10-11 16:30               ` Drew Adams
2021-10-11 16:38                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-11 16:39                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-11 16:43                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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