From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 13583@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13583: 24.3.50; Error when activating auto-revert-mode
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:39:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a9rrj3cg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9rs6r3h.fsf@web.de>
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:44:50 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > You can run the :set form of the option, with suitable substitutions
> > for "variable" and "value", instead of setting the value with setq.
> > But then you'd need to change that every time the :set form changes in
> > autorevert.el.
>
> IMHO, no user should need to do something like that.
No one does. Using custom-set-variables is much easier. I just
wanted to give Dani all the alternatives I knew about. Nothing wrong
with that, is there?
> I often saw people being reluctant about using `custom-set-variables' in
> their init file.
>
> I browsed the doc of `custom-set-variables', as well as the
> "Customization" chapter in the manual. I found no places were we say
> that some of these functions are suitable for being called from other
> files than the custom file, without danger.
I call it from my .emacs, and never had any problems in years.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-29 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 10:59 bug#13583: 24.3.50; Error when activating auto-revert-mode Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 11:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 12:18 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 13:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 14:22 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-29 15:08 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-29 15:16 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2013-01-29 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-29 21:25 ` Andy Moreton
2013-01-29 22:35 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-30 23:42 ` Andy Moreton
2013-01-30 23:52 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-29 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 13:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-01-29 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-29 18:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-01-29 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-29 16:06 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-29 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-29 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-30 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-30 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-30 7:28 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-30 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-30 19:24 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-30 18:05 ` Dani Moncayo
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