Why this Listen… There is no lack of confusion about the proper way of setting variables in ones Emacs config. There are far more ways to set these than the two mentioned in the title, which does not make matters easier. set setq set-default customize-set-value customize-set-variable And probably more that I do not know about The question becomes: What is the best practice here? Most people – including me – use setq to set values and are done with it. This mostly does the trick and in m...
