[Q] init and then custom, or TOWA

drv> I can't remember why the custom file is loaded after drv> the init file. I can't remember either if there's a good drv> reason for it. Well, one reason to load it _after_ the init file by default is that you could provide the user the option to fully control loading of his custom file by having startup.el do (require 'user-customizations custom-file) rather than load it unconditionally. You can't do that if you load it before. This would also allow you to inhibit loading simply by doing a (provide 'user-customizations) before the end of init.el. Of course, we don't do that yet.... I agree with you that one should have the option to load custom.el before init.el, though. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."