Re: best practices for implementing Emms configuration

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> We are trying to make Emms (https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/) better
> out of the box.
>
> The idea is to have the user invoke "M-x emms-setup", have Emms ask some
> questions (check which player binaries the user has installed, which
> metadata programs are installed, where the music is located, etc.), and
> have Emms generate and write the appropriate elisp configuration.
>
> I can think of two approaches. I am wondering which, if any, would be
> considered best practice:
>
> Write the configuration to the user's ~/.emacs in the same manner as "
> ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom." or ";; Added by
> Package.el."  I'm not a huge fan of this option for the sole reason that
> I don't appreciate packages automatically editing a file I manually
> edit.

This is better IMO.  Just use Custom.  The user can set 'custom-file'
to redirect the extra line to somewhere else.

>
> XOR
>
> Write the configuration to ~/.emacs.d/emms/auto-config.el. Emms would
> then look for that configuration file there during startup. This is
> cleaner, and can have the benefit of Emms being configured without a
> single line needing to be added by the user to their ~/.emacs.

Not bad, but is there really any need to reinvent the wheel once again?

>
> I know that a bunch of packages store information in ~/.emacs.d/, just
> as Emms does. But is it acceptable practice to store configuration there
> too?
>
> What I'm looking for is something along the lines of: "sure, we don't
> care", or "don't do that, we don't want Emacs packages to go down that
> route", or something similar.
>
> Thank you in advance.

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