From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why not tell about customize-set-variable? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:23:54 +0200 Message-ID: <485ED0FA.9080604@gmail.com> References: <485E876E.4010105@gmail.com> <485EC3B5.3010001@gmail.com> <87bq1tcdu1.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214173464 31330 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2008 22:24:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 00:25:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAXzf-0007VN-Jf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:25:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXyq-0003o3-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXyl-0003nd-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXyj-0003nH-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34039 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXyj-0003n8-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:58200) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KAXyj-0006JO-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:65449 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KAXyf-0006eQ-8R; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:24:05 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87bq1tcdu1.fsf@jurta.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080622-0, 2008-06-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KAXyf-0006eQ-8R. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KAXyf-0006eQ-8R ccc85ccf6519cd111e0b5482856f78e1 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99729 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: > `customize-set-variable' is useful as a "command-line" replacement of the > Customization UI. Thanks, I think that should be mentioned in the manual. >> I think there maybe is missing a very important piece of information from >> the doc string of custom-set-variables. Doest not calling that function >> set where to store customizations too? > > Do you mean the docstring of `custom-set-variables' should mention that > normally the function `custom-set-variables' should be called from the > init file .emacs? I might misremember, but does not custom-set-variables make custom remember where to store changes? So perhaps calling it from somewhere else than that file might confuse custom?