Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA

[Po Lu]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> Keybinding settings and the rest.

You can't use `setq' to customize key definitions either, right?

> Setup wizard produces some code, the user can modify them and put them
> in init.el. They can later modify or even delete them as then see
> fit. It’s flexible, straightforward, simple. Why do we have to involve
> custom and all its machinery?

Because new users tend to not understand Emacs Lisp, so any future
customization they do will necessarily be through custom.

And please don't say they "should" learn Emacs Lisp -- some people may
find that enjoyable but lack the time, and some others may simply not
want to at all.  Asking people to learn Emacs Lisp to make future
customizations is simply unacceptable as part of a setup guide for _new_
users.

> If we use custom, the key binding part is in somewhere in init.el, the
> rest are blended together with other random configurations in either
> custom file or the custom-save-varaible form in init.el. The custom
> part has to be changed through Customize (the comment says users
> shouldn’t modify the form by hand, and if they do, custom restores the
> change anyway).

Customize will find the form, no matter where it actually is in init.el.
Alternatively, you could set up a custom file.