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RE: re-loading an elisp file


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: re-loading an elisp file
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:09:19 -0700

> > And even in user init files, practice over the years has 
> > tended to reduce the habit of using setq in favor of
> > taking advantage of Customize (defcustom). There are
> > several reasons for that, including type-checking 
> > and initialization with side effects (i.e., initializing a
> > variable can also call for other, related initialization
> > operations).
> 
> Customize -- hmmm -- interesting (though I've never used it, 
> always preferred edit-options kind of thing).
> 
> But please say more about your suggested use of customize in this
> situation.  Thanks!

Dunno what "this situation" is.  And I don't have a suggested use of customize.

I use `defcustom' to define variables that I expect general users to want to
modify.  That makes the variables into user options, which means their values
can be changed using `M-x set-variable' or `M-x customize-option'.

> Also, some more about its type checking, and its initialization
> with side-effects.

See the `defcustom' doc wrt :type, :init, and :set.
(elisp) Variable Definitions
(elisp) Customization Types

> Maybe also some examples of how you use it in your code-writing.

Check the Lisp sources that come with Emacs.  Grep `:type' or `:set' or
`:initialize'.




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