bug#54381: 29.0.50; Automatically load custom-file

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:

> Attached is a patch to automatically load custom-file when defined.

[...]

> +;;;###autoload
> +(defcustom custom-file-load-p t

This isn't really feasible -- it'll lead to the custom file being loaded
twice for everybody that currently have a

(load custom-file)

in their init files (which will change the order of customisations).

So if we add this user option, it'll have to default to nil, and in that
case I don't see much point in the user option.  (Because people will
have to `setq' it in their init files.)

If we introduced the `custom-file' variable today, we'd load it
automatically, but I don't think it's possible to do so now without
breaking stuff.

Anybody else got an opinion?

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