Re: Default custom file was: Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 02:14:18 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > What I propose is to agree on a default value for custom-file that could
> > potentially be changed by the user in  init.el or .emacs
> > and do the (load custom-file 'noerror) after loading the init file as a
> > default behaviour for Emacs
> 
> FWIW, I support this proposal.
> 
> With such a default, I agree that we should load it after init.el by
> default (so you don't need to type that into your init.el).
> 
> A function `load-custom-file' that loads the custom file if it isn't
> already loaded might also make sense, to allow controlling the exact
> time when it is loaded.

What would that mean for users that currently save their
customizations through Custom in .emacs?  Would it mean that the next
time they save customizations, they will be written to another file
and removed from .emacs?