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Re: Customize may not be appropriate for older users

From: Francesco Potorti`
Subject: Re: Customize may not be appropriate for older users
Date: 15 Jan 2002 13:51:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.50 
Unfortunately, the suggestion which was the intended topic of my mail
got lost in the discussione that I involuntarily prompted with my
example file name. 
Let me try again with a less controversial example file name.
rms wrote (about customize writing in .emacs):
 I don't think these changes are needed, and they could be 
 inconvenient or troublesome. It is better not to do them.
 
and I answered:
 I have another idea, which may be better.
 
 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 scheme would be consistent with the one already used for
 default.el, and would have the advantage of not mixing hand-made and
 automatically generated code in the same file[1].
 
 [1] In my opinion, any program which edits a hand-made file does A
 Bad Thing.
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