From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>, <10773@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#10773: set-variable can't change values of user options
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:26:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6E2C6DFEC18A42E98A69D5044CF56936@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx8dt2mt.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> In my opinion, the best way to eliminate the distinction
> between user variables (with the leading '*' in the docstring)
> and customizable variables in 24.2 is:
>
> 1. Make `user-variable-p' an alias for `custom-variable-p'.
>
> 2. Remove the `user-variable-p' condition from `set-variable'.
>
> This will fix the reported case where `set-variable' can change
> the value of `outline-mode-hook', but not `outline-minor-mode-hook';
> and many other similar cases.
And how will that help code that uses
(defvar foo "*A user variable.")?
Users have always been able to set such a user variable using `set-variable'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 9:43 bug#10773: set-variable can't change values of user options Juri Linkov
2012-02-09 18:28 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-10 8:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
2012-02-10 10:18 ` Juri Linkov
2012-02-10 17:31 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-10 18:01 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-12 4:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-12 20:16 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-13 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 15:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-19 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 15:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-19 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 9:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-21 0:40 ` Juri Linkov
2012-02-21 15:26 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-22 0:16 ` Juri Linkov
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