From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customize question Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:50:55 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E03587F.7000302@ihs.com> References: <86d6nwk9oy.fsf@kronstadt.homeunix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040406987 22940 80.91.224.249 (20 Dec 2002 17:56:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18PRNq-0005xl-00 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:56:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18PRN8-0003E2-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:55:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1040406646 3403048 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108354 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4883 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I'd like to reuse a customized variable (which is not autoloaded) from > another package in my code. Is there a way to do that other than > (require 'otherpackage) ? Not that I know of. But you might be able to get away with wrapping that in eval-when-compile. > (In particular, I was thinking of declaring the same variable myself, > either in my group or in the group of the other package. What would > be the effect of that, and can it be depended on?) I don't know. Why don't you declare your own variable and have it default to the value of the other variable: (defvar foo-var bar-var). -- Kevin Rodgers