is custom-set-variables saved somewhere?

is custom-set-variables saved somewhere?

[Neal Becker]

at the end of .emacs is :

(custom-set-variables ... )

I'd like to somehow be able to re-execute this automatically later.  Is 
there some way to do this?  Is this set of customized variables saved 
somewhere so I can re-execute all the settings?

Re: is custom-set-variables saved somewhere?

[tomas]

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 08:51:09AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> at the end of .emacs is :
> 
> (custom-set-variables ... )
> 
> I'd like to somehow be able to re-execute this automatically later.  Is 
> there some way to do this?  Is this set of customized variables saved 
> somewhere so I can re-execute all the settings?

I don't think so -- but you can achieve a similar effect with some
forethought. It is possible to tell Emacs to keep the customizations
in a separate file (not in the standard init file) by setting the
variable "custom-file".

You have to "bootstrap" this thing by including something in your
init file along the lines of

  (setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")
  (load custom-file)

(cf. the variable's documentation for "custom-file").

regards
- -- tomás
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Re: is custom-set-variables saved somewhere?

[unfrostedpoptart]

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 5:51:51 AM UTC-8, Neal Becker wrote:
> at the end of .emacs is :
> 
> (custom-set-variables ... )
> 
> I'd like to somehow be able to re-execute this automatically later.  Is 
> there some way to do this?  Is this set of customized variables saved 
> somewhere so I can re-execute all the settings?

It's saved right there in your .emacs file.  To execute it, just put the cursor right after the closing parenthesis of the (custom-set-variables ...) block and type control-x control-e.  This is the command eval-last-seep which will execute the custom-set-variables block.   

You could also highlight (i.e. create a region) including that code in your file and then Meta/Escape-x  eval-region which runs all the highlighted code.

 David