From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:10:37 +0200 Message-ID: <864lt8eb36.fsf@zoho.com> References: <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> <867ey9sva2.fsf@zoho.com> <86378xskth.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812073057.GB20873@tuxteam.de> <86bmnlqlic.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812080204.GC20873@tuxteam.de> <867ey9qf0q.fsf@zoho.com> <87wp69jcjt.fsf@fliptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502835100 11699 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 22:11:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:11:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 16 00:11:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhk3a-0002I5-HM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:11:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhk3h-0004uK-3M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhk39-0004sg-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhk35-0000Nk-3Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57852 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhk34-0000KJ-Mj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhk2n-00088C-JW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:10:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:wEGt1h/U4Jo8Xc65Pym3CmPQlVc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114046 Archived-At: The program just written that was supposed to track down mutants came up with the following user variables that were incorrectly set with `setq': .emacs, 39: show-paren-delay erc-my.el, 9: erc-user-full-name erc-my.el, 72: erc-header-line-format mode-line.el, 6: column-number-mode mode-line.el, 7: line-number-mode spell-new.el, 5: ispell-program-name w3m-tabs.el, 5: w3m-tab-width The other program just written confirms this - possibly because they use the same criteria... According to the thread, `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? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573