Dear all, I'm not an emacs developer, but one thing which wasn't brought up in this discussion so far is the following: The entry in custom-set-variables changes continuously even if no new packages are installed, mainly whenever you update the packages: That will perform an uninstall of the old package and re-install of the same package with the new version. I don't change the list of installed packages often, but I do update my packages frequently and every time my .emacs changes. I find this annoying since I keep the .emacs file under version control. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Joost Kremers > > Cc: Kaushal Modi , johnw@gnu.org, > bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:56:40 +0100 > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 19 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Again, not very different from any other customization that differs > > > between machines. Users should be able to replace Custom forms with > > > plain Lisp code, and then they could resolve the issues with sharing > > > the settings across different machines and with Git easier. > > > > > > I already said all of that several times, so I will now shut up, > > > unconvinced. > > > > Unconvinced of what, if I may ask? > > Of the need to have a separate file for this. > > -- Bastian Beischer RWTH Aachen University of Technology @RWTH Aachen Office: 28 C 203 Phone: +49-241-80-27205 E-mail: beischer@physik.rwth-aachen.de Address: I. Physikalisches Institut B, Sommerfeldstr. 14, D-52074 Aachen @CERN Office: Bdg 32-4-B12 Phone: +41-22-76-75750 E-mail: bastian.beischer@cern.ch Address: CERN, CH-1211 Geneve 23