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Subject: Re: customize trouble
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>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de> writes:

    Jens> Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com> writes:
    >> For some reason this isn't working for me, I don't see why.  I have
    >> this in .emacs:
    >> 
    >> (custom-set-variables
    >> [...]
    >> '(display-time-mail-balloon-show-gnus-group t)
    >> [...])
    >> 
    >> But after starting up xemacs, C-h v says:
    >> 
    >> display-time-mail-balloon-show-gnus-group's value is nil
    >> -- a variable declared in Lisp.
    >> [...]
    >> 
    >> What's wrong?  No error was signalled in startup.  I have commented
    >> out the load of .xemacs-options, so that can't be doing anything.  The 
    >> setting of gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "mail.*" IS working.

    Jens> Try moving these definitions in your .emacs _before_ the point you
    Jens> actually do a (display-time) and tell me (us) if it works. This would
    Jens> be a hack no solution, I know. I'll try to investigate the reason
    Jens> behind this. 

Yup, I moved all the display-time related stuff after
custom-set-variables.  That seems to have fixed it.  Perhaps even my
other problems with time will now be fixed.

