From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> <867ey9sva2.fsf@zoho.com> <86378xskth.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812073057.GB20873@tuxteam.de> <86bmnlqlic.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812080204.GC20873@tuxteam.de> <867ey9qf0q.fsf@zoho.com> <87wp69jcjt.fsf@fliptop> <864lt8eb36.fsf@zoho.com> <0ca481f1-e676-4521-8282-9127082663c7@default> <86zib0cvr9.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502840370 15849 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 23:39:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:39:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 16 01:39:25 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlQY-0003J0-Mu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlQf-0003JW-A9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:39:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlQA-0003Ir-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlQ7-0004bB-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:49099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhlQ7-0004ae-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v7FNch6L018171 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:38:44 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v7FNchUT023870 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:38:43 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0004.oracle.com (abhmp0004.oracle.com [141.146.116.10]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id v7FNchFn015399; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:38:43 GMT In-Reply-To: <86zib0cvr9.fsf@zoho.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6774.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114052 Archived-At: > > Hint, it's called `customize-set-variable', > > not `customize-setq-variable'. ;-) > > You need to quote the symbol, if you want to > > pass a literal symbol. >=20 > I'm already starting to dislike this whole idea even more... What whole idea? Lisp? `set'? Symbols? Functions that evaluate their arguments? (defmacro my-custom-setq (variable value) "..." `(customize-set-variable ',variable ,value)) (macroexpand '(my-custom-setq fill-column (1+ 41))) --> (customize-set-variable 'fill-column (1+ 41))