Init.m considerations and good practices

Question

As I never found (or perhaps I never search for it enough) a good article about how to manage the init.m files, I ended up developing my own \"standard\", but I wonder how bad I

Answer 1

Having also not followed an official doctrine, I can only tell you what I do.

My Kernel/init.m contains no functions itself. I use it to:

• Set certain options: $HistoryLength SetDirectory etc.
• Do a little cleanup (I prefer not to start with a blank notebook)
• Set my desired DeclarePackage calls
• Load my custom functions package