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From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacing custom-set-variables
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:39:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0d8fb08-e3cc-4865-b35b-21829d855f55@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r67ncpoc.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au

I sympathize with the OP.

Using customize is like having all the linux customizations in /etc
collapsed into one humongous file.
Or equivalently like the windows registry without any namespaces.

Of course as others have pointed out setq does not (always) replace
customize variable.
But when it can (which is mostly) it is neater and more 'programmer-
like'.

I will also add that if you use setq you usually want to do the setq-
ing  as an attachment to the hook for the mode whose customization you
want to do. Setq just-like-that (ie standalone) will usually not work.

For example here is my recentf setup

(add-hook 'recentf-load-hook
  (function (lambda ()
	      (setq recentf-save-file "~/.emacs.d/recentfiles"))))
(recentf-mode 1)


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-14  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.19185.1221326409.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-13 18:08 ` Replacing custom-set-variables Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-13 19:05 ` Andy Stewart
2008-09-13 20:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-09-14  4:33   ` Tim X
2008-09-14  8:39     ` rustom [this message]
2008-09-14 21:30     ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-09-14  4:25 ` Tim X
2008-09-15 14:06   ` Mauricio
2008-09-13 17:19 Mauricio
2008-09-13 22:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-14  0:17   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-14  0:53     ` Drew Adams

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