From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 56400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:32:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ykbo46y.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkkK+1djyeVanqXmWgMTTmmHQG1SFdk6MOhQX_OTsT7aQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2022 19:08:24 +0200")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Aha, I guess it doesn't throw an error if `tetris' isn't loaded
> already, as it has no way of knowing the type yet. IOW, in emacs -Q,
> I need to say this to get an error:
>
> (progn
> (require 'tetris)
> (setopt tetris-buffer-width "hello"))
Yup.
> That's pretty good, but I wonder if we could do better. I expect that
> users will often set settings from libraries that aren't yet loaded.
> For example, how about warning upon loading the library if the
> variable is set to an incompatible value? Or something.
Hm... yes, that should certainly be possible. I guess the check would
go in... `custom-declare-variable'? Yeah, almost.
Now fixed in Emacs 29.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-05 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-05 15:32 bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch Stefan Kangas
2022-07-05 16:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-05 17:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-05 17:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-07-05 17:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-05 18:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-05 18:51 ` Juri Linkov
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