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


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: Default custom file was: Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:02:12 +0100

>>>>> On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:59:39 +0800, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> said:

    Po> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
    >> Plenty of people also object to Emacs writing stuff to their init file
    >> by default.

    Po> I know that, mostly because I'm one of the people who object.  What I'm
    Po> saying is that the status quo seems to have kept people reasonably happy
    Po> for a long time, so there isn't a reason to change it.  There will also
    Po> be people who object to the new default, and in 15 years there might
    Po> even be a proposal to change the default back to the init file, and
    Po> things will start becoming confusing then.

I think that were we to automatically use and load a custom-file for people
with no config at all, that such a proposal would not arise.

Robert
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