From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modifying many function calls Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:09:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC80856.9050605@easy-emacs.de> References: <4CC7DEB0.8040401@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288177841 17977 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2010 11:10:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:10:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 27 13:10:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PB3tu-000490-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:10:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PB3tt-0001kC-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39618 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PB3t7-0001Pm-AU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PB3si-00028I-8E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:62299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PB3sh-00027y-PC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from noname.home (brln-4db9e9a9.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.233.169]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MPIxM-1PFTjV3v9M-004z6b; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:09:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Ul2Q2CmwQWfXR45H2UtAwQCATbdzjFGzQevgIp2c48w 2y2fIylfCG3ImEelYrgVYVM9FTtFzja7NYkBKi4a8x1E14mUH2 7Panir4mMVHYWLNmKBDzyTuiZI2yX6N3CYMx+ZD2tuU+q+t9Dc whBOrdS5v/MAAPZt6Opw5vMbxXijaCIgsfSaLlE4hwCPSMRD9W OYmLTQb6F8QK1lomB4buzK7422fX2awYBWIeZuOhhk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75249 Archived-At: [ ... ] > And since I'm here, why I can't redefine a variable with defcustom? > I mean if I do > > (defcustom x 1) > then I want to change it > and I write and evaluate > (defcustom x 2) > > then even if I set it to nil and the reevaluate again still it doesn't > care. > Is that normal? > > > > AFAIK yes. It's little bit like with `defvar', but not that strictly, rather unpredictable. Use `setq', resp. a setq afterwards to make sure the new value is taken.