From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: custom-set-variables considered harmful Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:08:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5be6823b-e26e-f2b9-cdd7-d2c15b850f16@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511993337 7187 195.159.176.226 (29 Nov 2017 22:08:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:08:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 23:08:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1eKAXF-0001UX-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:08:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAXM-0007zR-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:09:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAXF-0007ys-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAXC-0006hY-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:08:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49209 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAXC-0006gk-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAX1-0000nM-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:08:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:WcTcfrMfJJx/QYP2IGsulg8XNVo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220524 Archived-At: > custom-set-variables or else bad things could happen. I do not want to > abandon my org-mode file. How do I keep modularization and use > custom-set-variables? That's a completely different matter. We're here arguing between `setq` and `customize-set-variable`. Both of those apply to a *single* var anyway: do not confuse customize-set-variable an custom-set-variables. Stefan