From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing custom-set-variables Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:17:56 +0200 Message-ID: <48CC5834.3080903@gmail.com> References: <002b01c915ee$e3dab210$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221351521 7075 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2008 00:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 'Mauricio' To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 02:19:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KefKy-0008B7-R8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:19:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KefJx-0004bF-RY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KefJf-0004Yq-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KefJd-0004YP-Hu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48272 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KefJd-0004YM-BY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:48765) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KefJd-0003jM-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:61523 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KefJX-0002FR-8J; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:18:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <002b01c915ee$e3dab210$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080913-0, 2008-09-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KefJX-0002FR-8J. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KefJX-0002FR-8J 8686f689fdd273d45119c914114afcb1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57545 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> In .emacs I have a few variables defined using: >> (custom-set-variables >> '(var1 val1) >> '(var2 val2) >> '(var3 val3)) >> >> How can I define those same variables in .emacs >> without using custom-set-variables? > > Typically: > > (setq var1 val1 > var2 val2 > var3 val3) > > But see also `setq-default'; it might be more appropriate for some variables. > > As an alternative to not using `custom-set-variables', consider having a > separate custom file, the value of variable `custom-file', and letting Customize > manage `custom-set-variables' there. That will keep Customize out of your init > file (~/.emacs). See the Emacs manual, node Saving Customizations. I think that is much better since setq/setq-default actually does not work for all custom variables. (See `defcustom' for details.)