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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Kai" =3D=3D Kai Gro=DFjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writ=
es:
>
>>> I assumed the OP would be able to convert the old settings to the
>>> custom-set-variables format, I've never had difficulties doing that.
>>> Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Kai> Probably not.  (I'd probably try to get Customize to do that
> Kai> conversion for me :-)
>
> Which is what started this conversation. :)

It appears that you can replace (setq foo bar) with
(customize-set-variable foo bar) and then eval those statements.
That should put it into the Customize database.  After that, they can
be deleted.

Maybe you need (customize-set-variable 'foo bar).
--=20
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.