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Re: [External] : Re: User setup for emacs


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: User setup for emacs
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 01:59:54 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams wrote:

>> I set custom-file to another file - ~/.emacs.custom -
>> because I don't understand customize well and I used to
>> feel very scared everytime that customize changed something
>> in my ~/.emacs without showing me what it was doing.
>> The part of my ~/.emacs that sets this is:
>> 
>>   (setq custom-file "~/.emacs.custom")
>>   (load custom-file)
>
> IMHO, everyone should define `custom-file', and thus keep
> Customize's maintenance of the code it generates away from
> the code you write in your init file. To me, this is
> common sense.
>
> But I was unable to get Emacs to even recommend using
> `custom-file', let alone programmatically encourage (not
> quite enforce) its use.

Is there an option to disable custom altogether?

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