>>
>> In .emacs I have a few variables defined using:
>>
>> (custom-set-variables
>> '(var1 val1)
>> '(var2 val2)
>> '(var3 val3))
>>
>> How can I define those same variables in .emacs
>> without using custom-set-variables?
>>

>
> Just use setq e.g.
>
> (setq var1 value1)
>
> but don't forget to also remove the corresponding bits in the custom
> section.
>
> but can I ask why you want to do this?
>
> For a long time, I stuck to using the older (setq ....) method, but now
> I've switched to using customize whenever possible. I've noticed that
> some 'odd' behavior I used to get with the older traditional method have
> gone away now that I'm using customize as much as possible. I do still
> have some stuff to convert over and plan to do so one day when I get the
> motivation.....
>
> In particular, I noticed some inconsistent behavior between some
> packages that supported customize when I also configured them 'manually'
> (and without corresponding settings in the customize section). for some
> reason, the default customize setting would override my setq setting. I
> never investigated very closely, but suspect it was related to how the
> initialization of the custom variables was handled. the quick and easy
> solution was to just set the values via customize and remove my hand
> crafted version.
>
> I've also found using customize is also useful in alerting you to
> changes in packages after an upgrade - something you generally don't get
> using the older manual approach.
>
> Tim
>