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Customized Variable Status

To get information about a customizable variable, you can use the following functions.

variable-customized-p symbol Function
Returns true if symbol has been customized by the user, false otherwise.

variable-declared-p symbol Function
variable-default-value symbol Function
The variable-declared-p function returns true if the variable named symbol has a default value declared for it, false otherwise. The variable-default-value function returns the default value of that variable, or nil if no such default value exists.

variable-type symbol Function
Returns the customizable type of the variable named symbol.