From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: muc.de e.V. Message-ID: References: <1502373086.1171866.1069247696.71F9FED4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8660dvuzsr.fsf@zoho.com> <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502479764 1062 195.159.176.226 (11 Aug 2017 19:29:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:55:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.4.1-20161224 ("Daill") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/11.0-RELEASE-p2 (amd64)) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 11 21:29:17 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 1dgFcS-0008Jd-Ry for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:29:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgFcY-0005im-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:29:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.space.net!news.muc.de!.POSTED.192.168.0.4!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Injection-Info: news.muc.de; posting-host="192.168.0.4"; logging-data="69925"; mail-complaints-to="news-admin@muc.de" Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219892 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:28:44 -0400 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:113993 Archived-At: Hello, Emanuel. Emanuel Berg 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. > -- > underground experts united > http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).