The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. pm> What do people prefer, customize or putting things in init.el? I've pm> tried both approaches, and I really can't make my mind up. pm> John> I'll bet most people use both: I use customize to twiddle John> options and related settings, but rely on my custom.el file John> to be the be-all-and-end-all for my environment. Really, John> isn't customize is just a gui for writing initializations? John> I just wish that customize knew how to keep my variables John> alphabetically sorted!! XEmacs 21.5 already knows! This is one gripe I have about 21.4. It's a pain to ediff-revisions on the file containing my (custom-set-* forms). -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/