Attached is a patch to automatically load custom-file when defined.
Motivation:
After 30 years of emacs use, I'm getting tired of the need to load custom-file when you setq it.
And when introducing people to emacs, the question of why you need to load it explicitly arises only too often.
Rationale:
1. if custom-file is nil, nothing changes
2. if you set custom-file:
2a. If you don't load it explicitly in your init.el, it gets loaded at a predictable place in the loading sequence (ie. after init.el was loaded)
2b. If you load it explicity in init.el, it doesn't get loaded twice and init.el "wins".
3. CORNER CASE:
Q:Currently, my init.el defines custom-file, but I don't load it.
A Add
(setq custom-file-load-p nil)
to your init.el and emacs will not load custom-file
Best,
/Pedro A.Aranda
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Georg Kreisler
003-auto-load-custom.diff