RE: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup]

[Drew Adams]

> I would like to have a "custom-setq" which set a var, checked to see
> whether the types were correct wrt customize, then crashed if not. It
> would be nice to use the knowledge of customize from lisp.

See commands `customize-set-variable' and `customize-set-value'.

(IMHO, `set-variable', which is also for setting a user variable,
should behave similarly, but it does not.)