Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization

[Andy Moreton]

On Mon 27 Apr 2015, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Why don't you write to the custom-file (and make the use of custom-file
>> the default instead of writing custom settings in .emacs by default) ?
>
> When should the custom-file be loaded?  Before .emacs is too early.
> After .emacs is too late.

Never - because customise is horrible :-)

I agree that emacs should not modify the user init file: it was
misguided to allow customise to do so, and customise should always have
used a separate file.

The code in package--ensure-init-file to add (package-initialize) will
cause breakage if the user had previously specified lexical binding (or
other file locals) in the first line of user-init-file.

    AndyM