Re: how to find out where a variable is changed?

[rustom]

On Mar 31, 10:27 pm, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Tip: It's not a bad idea to use a separate `custom-file' (`C-h v 
> custom-file'),
> so that Customize does not write to your .emacs file. Put this, for example, 
> at
> the end of your .emacs: (load-file custom-file). That way, your `init-file' is
> for hand editing, and your `custom-file' is for automatic editing by 
> Customize.

Thanks for this. I'll try it. But I am not so sure...

I use emacs for quite different purposes. I like to have the
customizations of these separately maintained.  As a programmer I
appreciate internal cleanliness more than external sugar-coating :-)

However this forces me to keep my c-mode and python and org and ecb
and god-knows-what-else customizations all together -- which I dont
like.

The problem as I see it is that the specification of initialization
in .emacs is given imperatively whereas it could be more declarative
and event-driven.

Assuming emacs is to .emacs as linux is to init, a possible
alternative that illustrates would be upstart -- see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit#head-4263a0dc03fdf9b46c2004f3e63d8033990db10a
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/index.html