From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16807 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Using things from 'custom.el' Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:15:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87siq3smer.fsf@web.de> References: <8761n0pkdd.fsf@talktalk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395933347 11362 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2014 15:15:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:15:47 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 16:15:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTC26-0006ac-HW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:15:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTC26-0000id-3t for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTC1y-0000M6-Up for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTC1s-0006eN-Uu for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34490) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTC1s-0006e7-Gj for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTC1r-0006Q4-Eh for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:15:39 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-207-85.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.207.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:15:39 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-207-85.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:15:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-207-85.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5I4uPAM5DAPDx7aJttoUcs49vx0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16807 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble writes: > I have this line in my 'custom.el' - '(gnus-fetch-old-headers 300) but > how do I call it from within gnus please. For variables, in 99% of the cases, setq-default is the right thing to use - in your case, for example, just (setq-default gnus-fetch-old-headers 300) In very rare cases, custom uses a specialized setter function and using just setq-default won't work. BTW, `setq-default' is like `setq', but always sets the default (i.e. the global) binding of a variable even when it is buffer local. Michael.