>>> "Bob" == Bob Newell writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> Unfortunately gnus-registry-marks cannot be customized! It is defined >> via defvar. > It seems almost too obvious to state, and probably contrary to > accepted best practices ... but ... I never liked 'customize' for some > things, in fact many things. When possible I prefer to explicitly > override defvar default values with setq, after the relevant package > has been loaded. This keeps my customizations--- with copious in-line > comments--- in startup files which are easily synced between > computers. Hi I tried (setq gnus-registry-marks '((Imp :char ?i :image "summary_important") (Work :char ?w :image "summary_work") (DONE :char ?d :image "summary_personal") (TODO :char ?t :image "summary_todo") (Later :char ?l :image "summary_later"))) In my init file and it did not work.