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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: best practices for implementing Emms configuration
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:56:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB548873CFBEA7BEE081E15633F31F9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgbvnz45.fsf@rabkins.net>

> > AFAIK people who don't like/want Emacs to edit their manually-edited
> > config file (such as myself) should and do set `custom-file` accordingly.
> 
> Over the years, the people I've helped set up Emms have almost always
> been people who don't know elisp at all (makes sense when you think
> about it). I think that the people who know about, and use `custom-file'
> are also the people who don't need help setting up Emms.
> However, that doesn't mean that you are wrong.

There were a few long threads about changing to have
use of `custom-file' be the default behavior.  See, e.g.,

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-01/msg00484.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-01/msg00772.html

> > So the better option seems very definitely to just save the config via
> > Custom: that's what it's for.
> 
> I'll look at cus-edit.el to see how I can leverage Custom to do the
> saving and loading for me outside of the customize interface. I don't
> use it and am ignorant of it.

This might also be of interest or help:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CustomizingAndSaving



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-10 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09 18:04 best practices for implementing Emms configuration Yoni Rabkin
2022-12-09 18:42 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-12-10 13:45   ` Yoni Rabkin
2022-12-10 15:46     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-09 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-09 23:46   ` Björn Bidar
2022-12-09 23:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-10 13:54   ` Yoni Rabkin
2022-12-10 14:35     ` Visuwesh
2022-12-10 14:36       ` Visuwesh
2022-12-10 17:56     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-12-10 19:15     ` tomas
2022-12-10  0:10 ` Björn Bidar
2022-12-10 14:03   ` Yoni Rabkin
2022-12-11  8:02     ` Björn Bidar

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