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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 03 Mar 2003, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de wrote:
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> 
>>> AFAIK, customization is just a setq generator, so you should be
>>> able to put all your setq variables in your custom.el.  Customize
>>> does not remove variables that are not customizable, so you won't
>>> lose any variables.
>> 
>> But the customization settings use a different syntax??
>
> 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?

Probably not.  (I'd probably try to get Customize to do that
conversion for me :-)

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