From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup] Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:28:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8a68f95d-4916-4a5d-a92c-b5de5f8f4d6e@default> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> <5581e666-3500-4a30-abb2-6454e2398a01@default> <87txd57d2b.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389806936 28101 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 17:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rusi , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 18:28:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3UGs-00063l-Nr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:28:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3UGs-0000Sg-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3UGR-0000Qt-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3UGI-0005Hf-IW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:28:27 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:29733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3UGH-0005GZ-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:28:18 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s0FHSFaV022669 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:28:16 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0FHSCSj015305 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:28:12 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0003.oracle.com (abhmp0003.oracle.com [141.146.116.9]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0FHSCKC014056; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:28:12 GMT In-Reply-To: <87txd57d2b.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95422 Archived-At: > I would like to have a "custom-setq" which set a var, checked to see > whether the types were correct wrt customize, then crashed if not. It > would be nice to use the knowledge of customize from lisp. See commands `customize-set-variable' and `customize-set-value'. (IMHO, `set-variable', which is also for setting a user variable, should behave similarly, but it does not.)