RE: FW: [External] : Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Stefan,

On Mon 03 Jan 2022 at 02:02AM -05, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> On Sun 02 Jan 2022 at 05:14pm -05, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>>
>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Customize should not write to your init file ...  That's a bad Emacs
>>>> design choice, IMO.  It especially should not be the default behavior.
>>>
>>> +1, FWIW.
>>
>> Hmm, then where should it write to?
>
> IMO, something like
>
> (setq custom-file (locate-user-emacs-file "custom-file.el"))

Hmm.  I recently deleted something like that which had been in my init
for years, because I looked it and couldn't come up with a reason why
the code should be in a separate file.  It seemed like pointless
complexity.  Why do you think it's better that way?

-- 
Sean Whitton