On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:47:51PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
> > … and that is also the huge advantage of not having only hu-
> > man-readable strings in Emacs's init file, but being able to
> > program in Emacs Lisp whatever is needed.  For "simple" cus-
> > tomizations, I recommend the Customization interface: It al-
> > lows to enter complex data structures in a guided way and
> > does The Right Thing™.
> 
> +1.  Like many (most?), I find the Customize UI
> somewhat ugly and clunky.  And it's hard to ask
> it what functions are involved underneath etc.
> (hard to "ask Emacs" there).

What I do there is to read whatever Customize has
written to custom.el.

Something to to for someone with spare cycles
(I know, I know) would be a link to a narrowed,
perhaps read-only view of that buffer (or even
more sneaky: a before-and-after view à la ediff
or similar).

Cheers
 - t