User setup for emacs

[tolugboji]

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On Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at 4:45 PM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> tolugboji wrote:
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> > > Your posts don't look good BTW ...
> >
> > I work to improve them and for others to find useful
> >
> > information. I do not see that emacs provides a .emacs
> >
> > dering installation.
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> It doesn't if you by installation mean the placing of binaries
>
> etc in $PATH directories and such stuff ...
>
> But I like it that way, I don't like when Emacs adds stuff to
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> my init files and I see no advantage of that, on the contrary
>
> I'd keep that human/computer separation clean.

The problem I find is there is no guide on how to get emacs to access
the user customisation files. Perhaps there could be an init file with
the lines commented out, and then one can add the paths etc to the user
customisation.

> Also I have no idea why this "has to" be the way it is but
>
> with this at least I don't have to see it
>
> (setq custom-file "~/ooa/dork.elc")
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> I don't even use custom so why can't that be opted out
>
> completely? Or can it? Apologies if so ...
>
> > The article claims that the latest way to include
> >
> > customisations is via ~/.emacs.d/init.el rather than using
> >
> > ~/.emacs. Is this claim correct?
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> Well, to me the init files were just files, the only thing
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> setting .emacs apart is that Emacs by default looks for it,
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> i.e., looks for a file located in $HOME with that name.
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> But I don't know, maybe there is indeed a policy which is
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> wholly or in part enforced somehow with respect to specific
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> files ...
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