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Questions tagged [customize]

Use this tag for questions about modifying a particular action or task within Emacs.

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How can I change where the customize puts custom-set-variables

Basically I would like to have (custom-set-variables ...) in a seperate file and for me to load that file. This is just for the purpose of organisation of my init file. How can I change the default location of custom-set-variables?
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How can I make customize use single quote for quotation?

Is it possible to teach customize to save its variables using single quote ' instead of quote? Example: … '(package-archives '(("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") ("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/"))) … instead…
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How do I determine where a variable is set?

When I execute a M-x describe-variable web-mode-markup-indent-offset I get this output: web-mode-markup-indent-offset is a variable defined in `web-mode.el'. Its value is 4 Original value was 2 Documentation: Html indentation level. You can…
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Specify the order in which `defcustom`s are presented in the Customize UI?

I have an Emacs mode. It has a defgroup and a number of defcustoms. Let's say: (defgroup some-group nil "Some group" :prefix "prefix-" :group 'languages) (defcustom some-option-1 t "Option 1" :tag "Option 1?" :type 'boolean :group…
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Find all customization type mismatches?

Occasionally, defcustoms change their :type and I fail to update my customizations. How can I get Emacs to list all the variables where customize things there's a type mismatch?
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Display all setq possibilities

When I install a new package, more often than not there are variables that I can set - to customise the package. I love customisations, which is why I use Emacs in the first place. For example, I installed the osx-dictionary package. In the sample…
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how to not save duplicate information in Customize?

On a fresh install of emacs, I loaded my personal init files with all my custom lisp code. Then I changed one setting using the Customize interface and saved my changes. But in the custom.el file, Customize saved not just that one change, but all…
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Ruled paper aspect in emacs interface

Is it possible to have ruled lines in emacs? I would like to have the same look of a notebook while writing my org files.
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quote vs ' in customization file

I sync my config between several different machines using git. Setting options via the customize-variable interface, some of my computers use quote, while others use '. As a consequence, my git commits include lots of bouncing back and forth like…
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How to use customize to turn on viper mode by default?

You can enable viper mode with M-x viper-mode RET, but this is inconvenient to do so every new buffer. I see on the Viper page that the way to turn on viper mode by default is (setq viper-mode t) (require 'viper) I've been trying to move over to…
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How to set up Emacs to cycle through files

I'm in a situation where I would like to look through a lot of text files as they are being created. I would like to configure Emacs to do the following: Launch from a script with directory argument Open the oldest file in directory Have two…
firstname gklsodascb
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How to hop the cursor over parenthesis, brackets, single-quotes, and double-quotes

One of the features I miss in Visual Studio is the ability to hop over closing parenthesis, brackets, single-quotes and double-quotes with tab Does anyone know of a script to do such a thing? Pseudo Code: If character to the right of cursor ==…
user18152
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Make customize save lists newline separated

When saving changes using customize Emacs serializes lists space separated. This makes for example the package-selected-packages variable extremely long and hard to scan over. Is it possible to make Emacs serialize lists more like it does with…
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init file -- How to customize user options?

One of the recommanded solution to customize user options in the init file is customize-save-variable. This command saves some code that initializes custom variables, at each startup of the editor. (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was…
user19761
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Customize: highlight-symbol-colors added only delta

Windows 10, Emacs 25.1 By default package highlight-symbol has 9 colors. So I add new color, snow, to option highlight-symbol-colors: Screenshot: OK. As a result Customize puts this in my init file: (custom-set-variables …
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