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 22:23:52 +0300 Message-ID: References: <31315912-2ddd-455e-912d-a5d0e405cf25@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35879"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: GNU Emacs Help To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 20:28:09 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 1kcZJI-0009B4-Nc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:28:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48498 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcZJH-0004Nd-NA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcZI0-0004Kw-0z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:26:48 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:34455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcZHu-00083J-1O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:26:47 -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 00000000002C0005.000000005FAAE96C.000006C9; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:26:36 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31315912-2ddd-455e-912d-a5d0e405cf25@default> 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: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:125207 Archived-At: * Drew Adams [2020-11-10 19:25]: > > 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) > > > > This way it is not working: > > > > (require 'cus-edit) > > (customize-save hyperscope-default-server "localhost") > > > > Any good way? > > Michael has given the answer: `customize-save-variable'. > ___ > > This page has more on the topic of Customize and saving, > if you're interested. (Just one opinion.) > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CustomizingAndSaving Thank you for reference. I was looking into it for reason to enable those functions to save to other files. Instead customization of Emacs to use it to save any variables like a simple database in different files.