Re: customize option/variable

[Stephen Berman]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 22:29:53 +0200 Juergen Fenn <jfenn@gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 28.08.23 um 21:21 Uhr schrieb aalinovi@riseup.net:
>> In Mickey Petersen's book "Mastering Emacs" he says:
>>
>> Hint
>> Apropos can sort results by relevancy. Type M-x
>> customize-option apropos-sort-by-scores
>> to customize it.
>>
>> But if I do M-x customize-option which becomes customize-variable,
>> there is no apropos-sort-by scores variable to customize.
>
>
> That's right, you cannot customise apropos-sort-by-scores this way, so
> you have to do this in your init file. Maybe it has to do with a change
> in Emacs 29.1. Mickey's book is about Emacs 28.

You can customize apropos-sort-by-scores with M-x customize-option in
Emacs 29 (and 30), but apropos.el has to be loaded for Customize to
recognize the variable.  So you can do e.g. `M-x apropos' and the `M-x
customize-option apr TAB s TAB will complete to the variable and you can
customize it.

Steve Berman