From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39692 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Huber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new Mail-Followup-To patch...please take a look... Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:45:46 -0400 Organization: Mind your own business, you silly arthur king! Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878ze0pk51.fsf@mclinux.com> References: <87wv1m9y6j.fsf@mclinux.com> <87bsixhk7t.fsf@mclinux.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175363 29327 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:42:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16559 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 01:46:45 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 01:46:45 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15wZaa-0001Fg-00; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:45:44 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:45:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA14351 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:45:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16530 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2001 01:45:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16525 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 01:45:13 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 01:45:13 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15wZgZ-0005DF-00 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:51:55 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h000094c5efff.ne.mediaone.net Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1003974715 20036 65.96.250.128 (25 Oct 2001 01:51:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Oct 2001 01:51:55 GMT X-Go-Away: or I shall taunt you a second time! X-PGP-KeyID: 6B21489A X-PGP-CertKey: 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A X-Request-PGP: finger:huber@db.debian.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39692 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39692 Per Abrahamsen writes: > defcustom can handle anything, you don't even need supply a ":type" > argument (it defaults to "sexp"). Og a :group argument, but not > doing that is kind of rude. > > It does require a value and a doc string, but if these are provided > defcustom can always where defvar can be used. The reason I changed it to defvar was I mistakenly thought that defcustom would overwrite the value of an already bound variable. (oops) -- Josh Huber