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24.0.94; Updating display of Customize buffer

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Message #38 received at 10907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 10907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#10907: 24.0.94; Updating display of Customize buffer
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:00:23 +0200

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:33:16 +0100
> Cc: 10907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:00:15 +0100 Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> > *Note (elisp) Customization Types::
> >
> >        You specify the customization type in `defcustom' with the `:type'
> >     keyword.  The argument of `:type' is evaluated, but only once when the
> >     `defcustom' is executed, so it isn't useful for the value to vary.
> 
> Ah, thanks.  I feared as much.  Is there really no way to reevaluate a
> defcustom in a running Emacs?  It would be very useful.

There's custom-reevaluate-setting, but I'm not sure it will do what
you want.

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