From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Phil Sainty" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15391: 24.3; sql-connection-alist customize interface sets CONNECTION as string; docstring specifies symbol. 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X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:78441 Archived-At: The docstring says: > sql-connection-alist is a variable defined in `sql.el'. > > Documentation: > An alist of connection parameters for interacting with a SQL product. > Each element of the alist is as follows: > > (CONNECTION (SQL-VARIABLE VALUE) ...) > > Where CONNECTION is a symbol identifying the connection If you use customize to edit the variable, it sets CONNECTION to a string. I don't know whether that's a bug with customize (that might cause problems elsewhere if other code expects a symbol?), or if it's the documentation that's incorrect, but something presumably needs changing here. -Phil In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2013-03-12 on shodan Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000 System Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Configured using: `configure '--prefix=/home/phil/emacs/emacs24/emacs-24.3/usr/local'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_NZ.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Help Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x l o a d - l i s q l M-x c u s t o m i z e - v a r s q l - c o n n t e s t f o o f o o SPC M-v f o o l o c a l h o s t g q C-h v C-x 1 q g y e s M-x r e p o r t - e m Recent messages: Toggle this item. Mark set Custom-no-edit: You can't edit this part of the Custom buffer Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help. Creating customization items... Creating customization items ...done Resetting customization items...done Creating customization setup...done Mark set [3 times] Load-path shadows: None found. 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