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: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:15:21 +0200 Message-ID: <86d17yrp6u.fsf@zoho.com> References: <1502373086.1171866.1069247696.71F9FED4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8660dvuzsr.fsf@zoho.com> <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> <867ey9sva2.fsf@zoho.com> <86k226rtwd.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502734585 19202 195.159.176.226 (14 Aug 2017 18:16:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:16:25 +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 Mon Aug 14 20:16:20 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 1dhJuS-0004UX-11 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:16:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhJuY-0001Xp-Jm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhJtv-0001WC-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhJtq-0002kx-BE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44093 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhJtq-0002kT-47 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhJtf-0001vN-BM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:15:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:VrTcTEgLct33VYSpc0CPYLzc/tA= 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:114024 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > In all honesty, one could actually do just > this, and it doesn't mean one would have to > use the Customize UI which will never happen > for many people anyway. > > It will be interesting to see how many `setq' > has to be changed, and also if something > "breaks" after changing it to the right way! Here is something that can help speed up the tracking down of user variables in code already written: (defun echo-user-variable () (interactive) (let ((var (variable-at-point t))) ; ANY-SYMBOL (if (custom-variable-p var) (message "user variable") (message "something else") ))) (defalias 'euv 'echo-user-variable) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573