From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 21695@debbugs.gnu.org, hmelman@gmail.com
Subject: bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:11:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mOATN-0007Fp-Dh@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fsufo8ff.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:03:48 +0300)
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> > 1. Get the list of variables that use :set.
> >
> > 2. For each of those variables, see if it is used in any source file
> > other than the one that contains the defcustom. A script can do this.
> "Any source file" should include all the Lisp files installed on the
> user's machine, right?
I don't think so. There is no need.
To make language clearer, let's say the variable is foofoo, its defcustom
is in foofoo.el, and all its other uses in Emacs are in foofoo.el
after the defcustom.
That option doesn't have any problems, I think.
Setting it with (setq foofoo ...) is something that should work
in .emacs. But we don't say it will work in Lisp code in general.
To do that, the user has to look up the right way to set it and do it that way.
So I think what I proposed is correct.
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2015-10-16 21:50 bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable' Drew Adams
2015-10-16 23:57 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-26 22:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-29 19:05 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-29 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-29 22:52 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-29 22:58 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-31 3:06 ` bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really? Richard Stallman
2021-08-31 3:43 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-31 16:15 ` bug#21695: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-08-31 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-02 6:53 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-02 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-03 9:54 ` bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable' Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-01 3:07 ` bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really? Howard Melman
2021-09-02 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-02 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 17:08 ` bug#21695: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-02 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-05 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-05 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-06 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-08 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-08 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 3:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-09-09 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 7:43 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09 11:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09 12:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-09 12:12 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09 12:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-09 12:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09 12:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-09 13:04 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09 13:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-09 14:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-10 10:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-10 14:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-12 8:23 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-12 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-12 9:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-12 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-12 9:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-12 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-12 10:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-12 21:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-12 22:11 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-13 7:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-13 9:11 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-13 9:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-13 13:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-13 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 8:03 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-13 9:14 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-13 12:36 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-13 12:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-15 9:27 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-15 10:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-15 20:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-16 6:56 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-18 0:30 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-18 7:34 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-18 9:20 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-13 1:17 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-10 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-10 13:49 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-13 1:17 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-02 17:08 ` bug#21695: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-05 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-04 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-01 12:48 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-02 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-02 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 17:07 ` bug#21695: [External] : " Drew Adams
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