Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?

[Luc Teirlinck]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

   The setq version could have an advantage if you could arrange so that
   custom-file was just stored in this expression, not in the custom-file. Then
   the value of custom-file would just be in one place. That would perhaps be
   possible by changing the :set and :get functions in defcustom for
   custom-file.

   I would prefer this.

Except that `custom-set-variables' does various stuff that `setq' does
not.  As a result, certain of the more subtle advantages of saving a
variable through Custom would be lost.

Of course, the first thing to decide is whether we want to change the
code or the documentation.  Your code seems complex and there are
potential pitfalls.

Sincerely,

Luc.