Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:54:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > The question is ... whether any arbitrary, usually small, set of (setq X) or
> > (face-spec-set Y) are better added to a hand-crafted init file, or done
> > via Custom (so they end up in custom.el).  The typical advice users get
> > on Stackexchange and similar, is to choose either variant at will (or
> > randomly), and to version control their emacs.d directory with git.
> 
> FWIW,that's not the advice I give.  This is the advice I give:
> 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/102/advantages-of-setting-variables-with-setq-instead-of-custom-el/106#106

In any case, I don't think we can be held responsible for incorrect or
inaccurate advice given on other forums.