Timeline for init.el and trampling of custom-set-variables
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| Jun 14, 2021 at 2:35 | answer | added | Tyler | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Feb 22, 2020 at 21:55 | comment | added | Phil | This answer whilst not a solution has some more details and advice on how to handle the issue, and confirms the duplication of all custom options, when editing any custom option via the customize UI, as described above: stackoverflow.com/a/10973076/2904770 - it's not really an answer, but useful reading nonetheless! | |
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| Jan 20, 2020 at 21:53 | comment | added | phils |
I suspect you have tried to convert the code (setq FOO BAR) into (custom-set-variables '(FOO BAR)), without taking into account the fact that the latter form is quoted. (I can't see an original working/setq version of that code, though, so I'm only guessing.)
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| Jan 20, 2020 at 21:43 | comment | added | phils | There was a normal quote prior to (around) the backquoted part, so your backquote and comma are just a backquote and comma -- quoted literally along with everything else. | |
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 23:33 | comment | added | Phil |
I was hoping the backtick + comma would mean that the local variable was evaluated in-place? It seems to work until customize writes out the incorrect version which tramples it? I'm retesting how it gets trampled now - I'm not (intentionally) using both methods to cause the trampling myself, but this would explain the behaviour... I'll delete custom.el and restart emacs. My belief is that I can show custom.el being recreated and trampling my settings without me setting any of the trampled values in customize interface.
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 23:13 | history | edited | Drew |
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 23:12 | comment | added | Drew |
And you apparently did what @phils mentions using Customize (e.g. M-x customize-option). That's the problem: you set and saved the value using Customize. And then you also set it in your init file (with code that correctly binds emacs-temp etc.).
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 23:08 | comment | added | phils |
"complicated expressions seems to get rendered incorrectly ... containing an out of scope emacs-temp" -- naturally; you quoted the value, so of course it's like that. I.e. you used (custom-set-variables 'FOO), hence a verbatim FOO is set and saved.
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 23:07 | answer | added | Drew | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 23:00 | history | edited | Phil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 22:46 | history | edited | Phil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 22:40 | history | asked | Phil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |