Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: setq instead of custom-set-variables

[fouvry+emacs-wiki]

,-- On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:03:01 +1100, Mark Triggs wrote:
| 
| TC <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > The reasons I'd prefer to do it manually are:
| >
| > 1. a basic aversion to having GUIs (or GUI-like things, such as
| > customize-group) sneakily editing my files without my knowledge
| >
| > and
| >
| > 2. The cryptic warning that customize-group inserts into the
| > custom-set-variable block about not having more than one
| > custom-set-variable in init files
| >
| > Do you think that's reasonable, or am I just being a paranoid luddite?
| > (Like a paranoid android, except not as robotic ...)
| 
| I'm one such luddite.  I may be paranoid, but I'm not an android :o)
| 
| Mark

I customised Emacs into writing its customisation file somewhere
else, and load that file from ~/.emacs.  That way, customize has
its own playground, but doesn't touch ~/.emacs.  Doing that made
me feel much safer (after an early customize version once erased
half of ~/.emacs).

Frederik