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

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:17:46 -0500, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> 
>>>>> said:

    Stefan> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
    >> 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?

    Stefan> Good question.

    Stefan> I imagine that we would just leave things in place for such users.  
It
    Stefan> would be slightly jarring to have things moved around behind the 
users
    Stefan> back.

    Stefan> But maybe it would be a good idea to provide a migration command to
    Stefan> conveniently move things.

    Stefan> Or we could prompt the user about moving it.  To avoid being 
annoying,
    Stefan> we could record the answer, and not prompt again if the question was
    Stefan> already asked.

Didnʼt XEmacs have a "would you like to move .emacs to
.xemacs/init.el" startup thingy? Itʼs been a while since I used
XEmacs. *If* we did this, weʼd have to be very careful when it got
triggered, lest hordes of pitchfork-wielding users descend.

Robert
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