Re: Customize may not be appropriate for older users

[Jason Rumney]

Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> writes:

>    Currently, I have this in my .emacs, just at the beginning:
>    
>      (load "/etc/emacs/default" nil t)
>      (setq inhibit-default-init t)
>    
>    That is, I exploit the excellent feature that allows me to either
>    load default.el at the beginning in order to override it, or else let
>    it be loaded at the end, which is the default.
>    
>    I think that the same criterion could be used for the code generated
>    by customize: let it go in a ~/.emacs.custom.el file, and let it be
>    loaded just after ~/.emacs, but with the option of preventing its
>    loading by setting the variable inhibit-custom-init.

This is already an option. The following two lines can be put either
at the beginning or end of you .emacs.

(setq custom-file "~/emacs.custom.el")
(load-file custom-file)


-- 
Jason Rumney