[emacs-berlin] Customizations in custom.el or elsewhere?

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, Nov 05 2024, jman wrote:
> How do you use `M-x customize-variable`? Why should I use that instead of
> putting my customizationa in a specific .el file?

There's no reason why you should use M-x customize-variable (i.e., the
Custom interface). You can if you want to, but if you prefer not to, that's
fine.

Personally, I don't use it anymore, though I used to. Since Emacs puts some
stuff in `custom-file` by itself, (e.g., `package-selected-packages`), I
set `custom-file` to "~/.emacs.d/lisp/custom.el", so those things don't
clutter up my init file. Customisations I make myself all go into my init
file, using either `setopt` or the `:custom` keyword of `use-package`.

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Joost Kremers
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