Re: .emacs - minor mode behavior

[Robert Thorpe]

> Also - I've read quite a few posts in this group, and it seems like
> most folks lean toward using customize as opposed to hand
> editing .emacs.  Am I making things harder on myself?

It depends on what you're doing, some modes don't properly support
customize and of-course you can't write elisp programs in customize.
But where you can use customize it is useful.

I use it for most of my customizations, but some still live in elisp.