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Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:00:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Hashcash: 1:20:220916:57847@debbugs.gnu.org::Em7swCCyhwSS0tmt:D7Dw 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:242721 Archived-At: severity 57847 wishlist thanks uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" writes: > I am reading the Elisp manual This is from An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp: (info "(eintr) defcustom") > 16.2 Specifying Variables using defcustom > > The custom-set-variables function works somewhat differently than a setq.= While I have never learned the differences, I modify the custom-set-variab= les expressions in my .emacs file by hand: I make the changes in what appea= rs to me to be a reasonable manner and have not had any problems. Others pr= efer to use the Customization command and let Emacs do the work for them. > > I myself use customize for hardly anything. Mostly, I write expressions m= yself. > > Why are we talking like this !!! "I have never learned the differences" = and "I myself use customize for hardly anything." That's just the style that this manual is written in. Maybe we could explain what `custom-set-*' actually does instead, or even mention the new `setopt'. Or we could just leave it alone: either way is fine by me.