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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reading compile.el, modifying settings
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 20:15:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkn1ui7y.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: svpqnxxg6n.fsf@tbox.wtc.algo

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Sam,

>>     (setq compilation-error-regexp-alist ... )
>
> compilation-error-regexp-alist is defined with defcustom, so it should
> be modified with custom-set-variables, not with setq.  Don't ask.

No, that's not true.  You can setq any defcustom as if it was a defvar.
The former is only some macro that eventually expands to a defvar, but
contains some more metadata for the customize interface.

Bye,
Tassilo




  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-05 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 14:03 reading compile.el, modifying settings Paul Graham
2011-05-05 10:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-12 12:49   ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-05-05 16:31 ` Sam Steingold
2011-05-05 18:15   ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2011-05-05 18:34     ` Sam Steingold
2011-05-05 19:09       ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-05 21:08         ` Sam Steingold
2011-05-06  7:13           ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-05 19:48 ` Tassilo Horn

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