Re: Persistence of variables

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-03-21, at 10:27, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:13:11AM +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
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>> On 2018-03-21, at 08:25, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
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>> Any thoughts/suggestions?
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> Only one: I'd tend to stay clear from the init file and write to some
> other specialized file which is included from there (a bit like what
> customize does by separating its stuff into custom.el).
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> Ideally, like customize, the user could choose her ways by setting
> a variable (in the customize-example, it's custom-file).
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> More modularity, less risk.

In general, this is a good point.

But in my use-case, I will have one user besides me (it's a tool for our
in-house workflow), and I wouldn't care about it too much.

If I turn this into a Melpa package (or even a blog post), I would of
course follow your suggestion.  (The drawback is that the user would
have to (once) insert something manually into init.el.)

BTW, is there any demand for such a micro-package?

Thanks,

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Marcin Borkowski
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