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Re: which one to use: custom-set-variables, customize-set-variable, or c


From: B.V. Raghav
Subject: Re: which one to use: custom-set-variables, customize-set-variable, or customize-set-value?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:14:23 +0530
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > As I said, you can certainly do as you suggest.  My suggestion is
>> > to clearly show in your init file how you are setting the value.
>> > Including for different Emacs versions - so you are aware of such
>> > changes when you read your code later.  But it's just a suggestion.
>> 
>> Here I was trying to make a case for some kind of "generic setter"
>> which knows what the right thing is. Of course, such a generic setter
>> wouldn't be half as valuable without a context. I wouldn't do it in
>> my init file as of now, where it's not "usual".
>
> BTW, maybe I should also have made clear that I think the best
> practice, in general, is to use the Customize UI and let it
> manage user options and faces, and to force it to do so in a
> separate `custom-file' and not in the init file.
>
> While one can call Customize functions (`customize-set-variable')
> from Lisp code, my advice is to save that for commands you write
> that dynamically manipulate (set and possibly save) options and
> faces - as opposed to using such functions in an init file.
>
> (Just one opinion.)

I second that.

-- 
(B.V. Raghav)
Ph.D. Student, Design Programme
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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