From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to save custom variable programmatically? Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:42:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87wnyth4ph.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13667"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: GNU Emacs Help To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 20:05:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kcYxC-0003RO-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:05:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60894 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcYxB-0004fr-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcYvT-0003bh-Lu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:43069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcYvQ-0004zu-P0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.34.177]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0004.000000005FAAE3FC.00007F09; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:03:24 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wnyth4ph.fsf@gmail.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/10 14:03:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -2 X-Spam_score: -0.3 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06=1.592, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125204 Archived-At: * Robert Pluim [2020-11-10 13:44]: > Jean Louis writes: > > > I would like to use custom variables in such way to ask user > > pragmatically, not through customize interface, to change a > > variable. This could be for example user's location. > > > > Upon changing it, I would like programatically to save it for future. > > > > Should I use below function? Or maybe something else is recommended? > > > > (defun customize-save-variable (variable value &optional comment) > > > > Thatʼs what lots of code in Emacs uses. > > > This way it is not working: > > > > (require 'cus-edit) > > (customize-save hyperscope-default-server "localhost") > > What's not working apart from the fact that customize-save doesnʼt > exist? Or did you mean > > (customize-save-variable 'hyperscope-default-server "localhost") Oh that works! Thank you.