From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:32:53 +0200 Message-ID: <875ykbo46y.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87wncrzedu.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 56400@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 19:34:36 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o8mRW-0000EK-Ep for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:34:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o8mRV-0007XL-E6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o8mPv-0004FS-Vv; Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:32:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2022 19:08:24 +0200") Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAgMAAAAqbBEUAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAACBj SFJNAAB6JgAAgIQAAPoAAACA6AAAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF3CculE8AAAADFBMVEU1MzOVgnXGwb7/ //9KtDuHAAAAAWJLR0QDEQxM8gAAAAd0SU1FB+YHBREIMpTdbNIAAAF0SURBVCjPVdKxbtswEAbg X4LJgVuKOCg8dwjyFJSBeOgkAz4NmrooQPgUjoF0Vo26g6cMpCHeU+aOcgxUkz795I8TJWBJLb4u ov/QxRt+oZ5QBU6BGVGSb2+CXhDGVdz6wLmgsdNS0SnccTKmvybuGGF7DiXZrGOLfl72sndxB8dp tyS85DBBkAmEbnQFXNCsY8GpHdBpG1aC+y88cWp2UtBsCnIje8jbCYvA53cMoBjmPe+VtPlr9R8S VOvcKhqFO0xbX5IdyP2ezLzsGReP16ag8lKAx1LwJuAVa9uF5QLL9CUp0AlgrwnsdEvyiWfoiV72 P+Mt6RaHGf8E/fdj9Hogeoj94pC3rdwNNID3LrcVMaf2LzKF3NZnAX6AK5ZE9iTcg0c7v9wonzG9 1nKyCmOQZLY7GOKLfwBvQqxgEye/RHq2MoHtwwiDD1/HypsT76Vg0J/Cuy5p2wdqHTQkr9XUyTPX Z0UXdIGls+6hkOSvMgWfJVnGkipgUgAAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6Y3JlYXRlADIwMjItMDctMDVUMTc6 MDg6NTArMDA6MDCp4FCRAAAAJXRFWHRkYXRlOm1vZGlmeQAyMDIyLTA3LTA1VDE3OjA4OjUwKzAw OjAw2L3oLQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Now-Playing: Frankie Goes To Hollywood's _Liverpool_: "Watching The Wildlife" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:236158 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no