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Re: Customize Rogue
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Per Abrahamsen |
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Re: Customize Rogue |
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Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:43:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) |
Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
> The custom-setq I'm talking about would have the *exact* semantics
> of doing M-x customize-variable MY-VAR, setting the value to VALUE
> and then chosing "Save for Future Sessions"...
That would be an a very bad idea, the *only* example where that would
is when you want to bypass code that *deliberately* make it hard to
use setq, and I'd be very surprised if that is the case for any other
variable than 'inhibit-startup-echo-area-message'. That variable is
difficult to modify non-interactively for political reasons, RMS want
every user to see the message at least once, so he made it hard for a
system administrator to deactivate it for all users.
Luc's set-activate should cover all the variables that are
*accidentally* made hard (or non-intuitive) to set from outside
customize.
> Really, the fact that I've chosen inhibit-startup-echo-area-message for
> the example is irrelevant.
Not if it is the only variable in Emacs for which your example makes
sense.
> The first one that crossed my mind. But what about those variables whose
> docstring says "Setting this variable directly will have no effect, you
> have to use customize"...? I want to have the option of setting the
> variable directly and getting the customization effect.
There is always, modulo bugs, a specific function you need to call
instead. However, set-activate will relieve you of the problem of
finding it (fixing the doc-string to mention the function would also
be a good idea). It will also make it much easier to transition
*from* customize to Lisp, in fact you will be able to automate it
entirely.
- Re: Customize Rogue, (continued)
- Re: Customize Rogue, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/03/12
- Re: Customize Rogue, Richard Stallman, 2003/03/13
- Re: Customize Rogue, Richard Stallman, 2003/03/12
- Re: Customize Rogue, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/03/09
- Re: Customize Rogue, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/03/09
- Re: Customize Rogue, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/03/09
- Re: Customize Rogue, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/03/09
- Re: Customize Rogue, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/03/09
- Re: Customize Rogue, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/03/09
- Customize and inhibit-startup-echo-area-message, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/03/09
- Re: Customize Rogue,
Per Abrahamsen <=
- Re: Customize Rogue, Andreas Schwab, 2003/03/10
- Re: Customize Rogue, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/03/12
- Re: Customize Rogue, Kai Großjohann, 2003/03/10
- Re: Customize Rogue, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/03/12
- Re: Customize Rogue, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/03/10
- Re: Customize Rogue, Kai Großjohann, 2003/03/10
- Re: Customize Rogue, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/03/10
- Re: Customize Rogue, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/03/10
- Re: Customize Rogue, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/03/10
- Re: Customize Rogue, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/03/12