From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: uzibalqa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Updating defcustom variables in elisp code Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:29:20 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8875"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 18 16:30:54 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oZvJu-0002Bu-6V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:30:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53966 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZvJt-00062o-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZvIg-00062f-C5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40140.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.140]:31483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZvId-0001PE-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:29:37 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=proton.me; s=protonmail; t=1663511371; x=1663770571; bh=Unp5/3yylKE7mEwSHnyAfXBFkhjqRXYzI41TkE7lnfU=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date: Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID:Message-ID; b=fGW5BRUceOhLRsgLBGH05HSqf0RaRTsCbbdB83qIIERm4j0zwym30El2/E3PPQVNG qHGtkB+tup433RDQTnn5kZmh/MZg+Oxa4IxQwUQyrIlCwERSGlw30jmEXFBJjaDllw RmsgPGhoK3OyRW3BKBbYBQkPqbzvJZOdnu/LZ4dH0HPeghiPnw1o+Nt2OuPJnspp9u ++6oKBourBazL6+Nv/yRSJAGcxn3L0uhNUhZ1VIrpdQbFEVL67gy+gZ15j+e9Qs4NQ EkWA9qlQSz3+0Ph4n4NWxt8LcKfeaKqNqJ+xad/L5ITsM1/URL4/SAmKjg+QtjitcW 377+wnPFJB5ow== Feedback-ID: 52887082:user:proton Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.140; envelope-from=uzibalqa@proton.me; helo=mail-40140.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139569 Archived-At: Have used defcustom as follows (defcustom px-frame-initpos (cons 8 8) "Position of initial frame." :type 'sexp :group 'px-frame) Then inside some function, I want to reset the value of "px-frame-initpos". Have been using=20 (custom-declare-variable 'px-frame-initpos (cons lft top) "DESC") Perhaps using "custom-declare-variable" is not the appropriate thing to do,= as it seems=20 that it is declaring the variable from scratch, needing also ":type" and ":= group". =20