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On 2017-08-11, Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> wrote:

> Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

>>     (setq whatever some-value)

> I tend to use that approach as well. But I am helped some times using
> customize to browse options available in a hierarchical structure.

....and that is the problem.  What are the "some-value"?  I tried 2-3
variables until someone in this newsgroups gave me the proper value,
which at the time I was not even aware.

nb