On 2022-11-23 17:30:07 +0000, ( wrote: > That's why I use this code to redirect all custom customisations into > ~/.config/emacs/custom.el: > > (setq custom-file > (concat (or (getenv "XDG_CONFIG_HOME") > (concat (getenv "HOME") "/.config")) > "/emacs/custom.el")) > (load custom-file) I'm totally new to emacs, so this might be very stupid question, but based on the internets I've put the following into the init.el: (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory)) (load-file custom-file) Is there any practical difference or reason to prefer your version? W. -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.