From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:18:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ca481f1-e676-4521-8282-9127082663c7@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864lt8eb36.fsf@zoho.com>
> `customize-set-variable' should be used rather
> than setq. However that doesn't work - it won't
> evaluate, and the byte compiler - which doesn't
> mention the supposed "setq error" by the way -
> the byte compiler doesn't accept the New Deal,
> saying either
> Wrong type argument: symbolp
> or
> Attempt to set a constant symbol: nil
>
> The customize-set-variable interface is
> (customize-set-variable VARIABLE VALUE &optional COMMENT)
>
> which sounds a lot like the setq interface, namely
> (setq [SYM VAL]...)
> so why doesn't that work?
Hint, it's called `customize-set-variable', not `customize-setq-variable'. ;-)
You need to quote the symbol, if you want to pass a literal symbol.
(setq alpha 42) = (set 'alpha 42)
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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-10 13:51 Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Ronald Fischer
2017-08-10 15:59 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-10 16:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 17:24 ` John Ankarström
2017-08-13 20:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 17:32 ` John Ankarström
2017-08-10 16:00 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-08-10 16:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-11 7:21 ` Ronald Fischer
2017-08-11 13:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-11 14:11 ` Tomas Nordin
[not found] ` <mailman.12937.1502460691.21957.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-08-11 15:20 ` notbob
2017-08-11 15:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-11 16:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-11 19:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-11 19:15 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-12 15:53 ` ken
2017-08-12 16:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 16:24 ` ken
2017-08-13 20:19 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.12941.1502465490.21957.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-08-11 15:57 ` notbob
2017-08-11 16:37 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.12935.1502459723.21957.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-08-11 14:09 ` HASM
2017-08-11 15:20 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.12940.1502464872.21957.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-08-11 18:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-11 20:08 ` HASM
2017-08-11 20:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-11 20:46 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-11 22:12 ` (1) defcustom :set, (2) similar for defvar Drew Adams
2017-08-12 0:15 ` Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 7:30 ` tomas
2017-08-12 7:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 8:02 ` tomas
2017-08-12 10:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 10:38 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-08-12 11:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-15 22:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-15 22:18 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-08-15 22:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-15 23:38 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-16 0:09 ` John Mastro
2017-08-16 0:37 ` Robert Thorpe
2017-08-16 1:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-16 0:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-15 22:25 ` John Mastro
2017-08-15 22:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-15 23:09 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-16 0:07 ` John Mastro
2017-08-16 0:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 12:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-12 16:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-12 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-12 0:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-14 16:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-14 18:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-14 21:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-14 23:17 ` John Mastro
2017-08-15 0:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-15 2:20 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.12888.1502380810.21957.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-08-10 17:47 ` Dan Espen
2017-08-10 18:06 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-10 18:10 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.12897.1502388423.21957.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-08-10 19:08 ` Dan Espen
2017-08-10 19:14 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.12899.1502392471.21957.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-08-11 12:03 ` Dan Espen
2017-08-11 13:46 ` Emanuel Berg
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