From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: custom-set-variables considered harmful Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:53:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510084475 17682 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2017 19:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:54:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 07 20:54:32 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eC9x9-0004Ez-Ih for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:54:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55600 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eC9xD-0006BL-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eC9wb-0006B4-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eC9wY-00052S-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:53:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41379 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eC9wY-000528-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eC9wO-0002hn-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:53:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:d1ZWuT1FYWS+LunoV9dFXkhoOJs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219970 Archived-At: > Here i a useful defmacro that helps with setting things that are > customized via custom without having to think about it: > (defmacro c-setq (variable value) > "Exactly like setq, but handles custom." > `(funcall (or (get ',variable 'custom-set) 'set-default) ',variable ,value)) I think you should use customize-set-variable instead (or make your macro use it). Stefan