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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, GNU Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: How to save custom variable programmatically?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:24:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31315912-2ddd-455e-912d-a5d0e405cf25@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X6pGa6HQ60NZK6Ne@protected.rcdrun.com>

> I would like to use custom variables in such way to ask user
> pragmatically, not through customize interface, to change a
> variable. This could be for example user's location.
> 
> Upon changing it, I would like programatically to save it for future.
> 
> Should I use below function? Or maybe something else is recommended?
> 
> (defun customize-save-variable (variable value &optional comment)
> 
>   This way it is not working:
> 
> (require 'cus-edit)
> (customize-save hyperscope-default-server "localhost")
> 
> Any good way?

Michael has given the answer: `customize-save-variable'.
___

This page has more on the topic of Customize and saving,
if you're interested.  (Just one opinion.)

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CustomizingAndSaving



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-10 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-10  7:51 How to save custom variable programmatically? Jean Louis
2020-11-10 10:43 ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-10 13:42   ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 11:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 13:55   ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 14:36     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:19       ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 20:42         ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-11-10 21:46           ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 21:20             ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-11-10 20:43         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 21:52           ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 18:00             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 18:05               ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 12:24             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 15:07               ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 21:15         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 21:55           ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 10:55             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 15:44           ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 16:38             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 21:30               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-10 16:24 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-11-10 19:23   ` Jean Louis

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