Eric S Fraga <esfli...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thursday, 14 Sep 2017 at 16:02, Loris Bennett wrote: >> But should this kind of ordering dependency happen? Or should my >> Customize block just be at the beginning of my .emacs rather than at the >> end? > > I make sure my customizations are loaded before anything else. I have > my customizations in a separate file and "(load custom-file)" as one of > the first things in my Emacs init. Not the first as such as I set the > load-path to point to the versions of packages I am using that may > conflict with built-in ones in Emacs.
For someone like me, who fails to spot the related variables even within a single file, I think hiving customisation off into a separate file might set up a few new tripwires for future me. Having said that, having let my .emacs grow organically (think "rampant weeds") for 30 years, maybe I should take the shears to it. I'm just worried that, if I started today, I might not be productive again until the New Year :-( Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
