Very revealing. However, that post was written in 2005, and the following statement is found at the tail end:
I can still dream. I have to say, though, thank you very, very much. This certainly clarifies the issue well.The good newsThe behaviour of custom due to more than one custom-set-... statement will be changed in Emacs 21.xx. I've been told that> Multiple calls to custom-set-variables should work in Emacs 21;> if you customize, all the variables go into the first one,> and the rest are deleted.
Hi Alan,
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:13:34 +1000
> I have noticed the message from within the customization interfaceSay you customise the templates outside your custom-set-variables
> that some variable or another was set outside of customization, and
> there may be unpredictable results. Wonder what that really means,
> though. It's still a variable, isn't it?
>
block. Now if you use the customise your templates with customize and
save them, it will be saved in the custom-set-variables block. For the
current session of emacs you might not experience any problems, but
when you restart emacs depending on which comes first the setq or the
custom-set-variables your templates will be set accordingly. It is
difficult to predict for me which will be the case. For more on this
you can look here[1].
Hope this helps you understand the issue with what you are attempting.
[1] http://www.dotemacs.de/custbuffer.html
> Alan
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