From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: comments in customise variables Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:05:29 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ocgelreu.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291831893 12071 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 18:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:11:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 19:11:29 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQOUD-00017S-4w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:11:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQOUC-0000wU-3l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:11:28 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: individual.net JaXkOi3cgU6mNxLc5TWLcAWGzLPJ64FHGolrJM4Ii+IdGx536y Cancel-Lock: sha1:OTYxZjNlNWZiNzA1MTFjNTE5NjZhMmJmNDQzNzYwZDRkYThmYmMyNQ== sha1:hjBdiTr+1/Eh3gm59JsmGKjoj/Y= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178218 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:75765 Archived-At: Suvayu Ali writes: > Hi everyone, > > Is it possible to insert comments in the (custom-set-variables...) > block? Every time I customise a new variable and save it, all my old > comments disappear. I have tried commenting like this, > > ;; comments > '(some-var value) > > '(some-var value) ; comments > > Neither of them survive after customising a new variable. Any thoughts? Put the comment outside of the custom-set-variables form. (custom-set-variables ... '(some-var value) ...) ;; ... ;; some-var: comment ;; ... -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/