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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> The Right Thing(TM) is to write in custom-file, and leave .gnus for
> manual customization.

The Viper package has a some simple invoked-for-the-first-time
messages and prompts for new Viper users.  It writes settings to
~/.viper rather than `custom-file'.  I'm not saying this is the Right
Thing, but it would be nice to see consistency between packages that
perform first-time initialization, particularly those packages that
are a part of do Emacs.

I'm not sure how Viper knows whether it's being invoked for the first
time.  Maybe through the abscence of ~/.viper?

Sam
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