>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "ms" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
ms> I remember differently, mainly that it's possible to get
ms> custom-before-init with the current setup (by loading the
ms> custom stuff at the top of init.el), but that it's much harder
ms> to get the reverse under the reverse setup.
Stephen> Huh? Name the custom file "perverse-order-custom.el", and put
Stephen> (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "perverse-order-custom.el"
user-init-directory)
Stephen> (load custom-file)
Stephen> at the end of the init file. No? Whereas with custom-after-init, you
Stephen> need to jump through hoops with `after-init-hook' to avoid loading
Stephen> custom-file twice.
OK, I agree that the complexity is comparable. I still don't agree
with the change: it's not clear to me that one order is inherently
better than the other, and it breaks some folks' setups.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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