order of init vs custom [was: Contents of one of my workspaces]

ms> OK, I agree that the complexity is comparable. I still don't ms> agree with the change: it's not clear to me that one order is ms> inherently better than the other, and it breaks some folks' ms> setups. It's a POLA issue. People expect that code will work the same in init.el as it does in the *scratch* buffer. This does come up occasionally on c.e.x, not very much on xemacs-beta, though. Also, it's disconcerting (to me, anyway) to have customizations take effect suddenly after the init process, including loading of desktop etc. This is purely cosmetic. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.