Emacs Asked by PRouleau on September 2, 2021
How can I programmatically check if a customize group exists?
Interactively I can use M-x customize-group
and use completion to see if a specific group exists or not. But that’s not what I need.
If I evaluate:
(customize-group "some-invalid-non-existing-group" nil)
Emacs will open a *Customize Group*
buffer stating that the requested group is missing.
I’m writing code that programmatically opens a *Customize Group*
buffer but I’d like to do that only if the group exists. So i’d need to check if a specific group name (held in a string) exists prior to programatically calling the customize-group
function.
How to do that?
Cribbing from cus-edit.el
gets you this:
(let (custom-groups)
(mapatoms (lambda (symbol)
(when (or (and (get symbol 'custom-loads)
(not (get symbol 'custom-autoload)))
(get symbol 'custom-group))
(push symbol custom-groups))))
custom-groups)
Correct answer by rpluim on September 2, 2021
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