From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Röhler'" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>,
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: redefining/re-evaluating a defcustom [was: Modifying many function calls]
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:24:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D85D6BC2847D4C389961F9BB2CCDB832@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC80856.9050605@easy-emacs.de>
> > 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.
I think it's completely predictable. Yes, it's like `defvar'.
> Use `setq' ... to make sure the new value is taken.
Interactively, you can just put point inside the defcustom somewhere and hit
`C-M-x'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 8:44 Modifying many function calls Andrea Crotti
2010-10-26 9:55 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-10-26 19:07 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
2010-10-27 8:11 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-27 10:16 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-10-27 11:09 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-27 14:24 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-10-27 13:05 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-28 2:56 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1288174667.7486.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-27 13:40 ` Scott Frazer
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