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

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 07:13:22 +0100, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez 
>>>>> <paaguti@gmail.com> said:

    >> Message: 1
    >> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2022 20:03:13 +0800
    >> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
    >> To: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions."
    Pedro>    <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
    >> Cc: xenodasein@tutanota.de
    >> Subject: Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA
    >> Message-ID: <87v8z2jqf2.fsf@yahoo.com>

    Pedro> If the default custom file has always been the init file, maybe the
    Pedro> idea could be to create the custom file separately in a default
    Pedro> location instead and keep init and custom files separated. I don't
    Pedro> remember when I started using <emacs_dir>/custom.el as my custom
    Pedro> file. Maybe something like that could be made the new default custom
    Pedro> file and <emacs_dir>/init.el the default init file instead of 
~/.emacs

The latter is already kind of the case: if <emacs_dir>/init.el exists
and ~/.emacs doesnʼt, init.el is used. If youʼre proposing swapping
that so that init.el is used even if .emacs exists, then thatʼs never
going to fly, but I for one would have no objections to customize
saving stuff to init.el if the user has no config at all. But Iʼd let
someone else write and test the code :-)

Robert
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