basic settings of Emacs

[Gottfried]

Hi,

I have got a basic question.

1.
Some people use their init.el file and put everything there
They have a nice overview of all their settings for emacs.
But it is very long.

2.
Some people use init.el and gnus.el and other .el files
to sort them topically.

3.
Some people use the Emacs customization to customize everything.


4.
What option should one prefer?

5.
I have got now init.el, gnus.el, custom.el, and other .el files
I like to sort out everything for an easy overview.

I usually install emacs packages through my GNU Guix system


I didn´t want to mix those up until now,
because I have too little knowledge.


thanks

Gottfried

And besides the init.el file there appears then a custom.el file in which you can´t change anything, but through customization options everything is done. and not through the Emacs package repositories, even though some packages are older in GNU Guix.

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