Re: Running emacs without any customisation

[Michael Heerdegen]

uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> writes:

> > It is an error in a package if loading the package has side effects other
> > than defining functions and variables, recursively loading other stuff,
> > and these things, but not all stuff out there respects that rule.
> > 
> > That could be the case here.
> > 
> > Michael.
>
> custom-set-variables was introduced when users set their
> customisations.  If there be side effects, wouldn't it be good that
> emacs handles them as well if the init file does not use them.

It's equivalent to the halting problem to decide whether the init file
uses any side effect.  No chance to find that out in general.

Michael.