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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de>
Date: 07 Apr 1997 21:45:46 +0200
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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.

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

Maybe Per can also comment on this? I still don't have understood the
exact way custom-set-variables handles the values you give it. If a
variable is setq'ed before, custom-set-variables will not overwrite the
value, right?  How is it with defvar'ed variables (before/after a call
to custom-set-variable)? How with a variable that is defcustom'ed
_before_ the custom-set-value call is made?

	 jtl

