From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Devin Homan <devinwh7@gmail.com>
Cc: 15479@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15479: Feature request: defcustom inherit type
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:32:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muec606m.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52467513.20408@gmail.com> (Devin Homan's message of "Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:20:03 -0800")
Devin Homan <devinwh7@gmail.com> writes:
> For example, in the provided source there is:
>
> (defcustom foo-bar "A" "Doc." :group foo :type '(string))
>
> (defun foo-smash () "Doc." (message "%s" foo-bar))
>
> (provide 'foo)
>
> then the client code can have:
>
> (require 'foo)
>
> (defcustom cat-thing1 "B" "Doc." :group cat :type '(inherit foo-bar))
>
> (defcustom cat-thing2 "C" "Doc." :group cat :type '(inherit foo-bar))
This sounds nice, but I don't think it's necessary to have an operator
for this. You can just say
:type (get 'foo-bar 'custom-type)
and get the same effect. So I'm closing this bug report.
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2013-09-28 6:20 bug#15479: Feature request: defcustom inherit type Devin Homan
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