Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Emanuel.

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> HASM wrote:

>> However, and I forgot a bit all the details,
>> but once I asked in the mail list that
>> handles one of the packages I use how to setq
>> something and was told to use configure
>> instead, that was why configure was created,
>> and that using setqs wouldn't do it properly.

> As long as you setq to a value that makes
> sense, it shouldn't be a problem.

There are some custom settings (I'm afraid I can think of anything
specific at the moment) where setting them via `customize-...' also
triggers a setting up function, which incorporates the new setting into
something deeper than just a variable value.

If you're going to be restricting yourself to not using the
`customize-...' interface, you'll have to be aware of which settings
need a setting up function called after their being set, and calling
those functions manually.

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).