Questions tagged [customization]
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Why is defgroup useful?
I'm reading the ido source and see:
(defgroup ido nil
"Switch between files using substrings."
:group 'extensions
:group 'convenience
:version "22.1"
:link '(emacs-commentary-link :tag "Commentary" "ido.el")
:link '(emacs-library-link :tag…
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How to modify the standard value of an customization option
Assume a library has some customizable option my-option with a list of values:
(unintern "my-option" obarray)
(defcustom my-option '(first second third)
"Option with a list of values."
:type '(repeat symbol)
:group 'my-group)
(provide…
Tobias
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List all customized variables and faces whose default has changed since a specified Emacs version?
I try to use "Easy Customization" for most of my customization of Emacs. Some of my customizations are changes to the defaults, i. e. sentence-end-base gets customized from:
"[.?!][]\"'”)}]*"
to:
"[.?!][]\"'””)}]*\\( :-)\\)?"
When a new Emacs…
Tim Landscheidt
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Specify the type "mode" for defcustom?
Is it possible to specify that a defcustom can only take the value of a mode?
More specifically, I've got a variable that's a map from major modes to lists of strings, and I wants users to be able to configure this map. So conceptually I want…
abingham
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Determining use of customize-set-variable versus setq
How can I determine whether to use customize-set-variable rather than setq?
Dilna
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