From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4706: customize and aliaes Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:14:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4363-Mon12Oct2009122818+0100-jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk> Reply-To: Glenn Morris , 4706@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255588059 5952 80.91.229.12 (15 Oct 2009 06:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 4706@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 08:27:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MyJo8-0000yO-2T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:27:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyJo6-0003fv-Tn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyJo0-0003dH-Gz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyJnv-0003b8-Va for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:27:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46706 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyJnu-0003aw-Fc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:46310) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyJnt-0001Cl-OA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9F6RBZe029179; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:27:11 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9F6K5T3027968; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:20:05 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:20:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:20:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4706 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 4706-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B4706.125558726527161 (code B ref 4706); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:20:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4706) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 15 Oct 2009 06:14:25 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9F6ENfL027158 for <4706@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:14:24 -0700 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MyJbS-0008OT-WA; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:14:23 -0400 X-Spook: AMEMB David John Oates diwn kibo advisors George W. Bush X-Ran: $jR|G]^x7PaL\J|-x5BsxQ.]*,7$uPDtTi=_0n]c[SFf&1sg0?1c1^~U1N`sL0+hJg(z}( X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:27:19 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:31955 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Perhaps if new_alias has a 'saved-value property, and base_variable >> does not, Fdefvaralias could copy the property to base_variable? [...] > I think that extending defvaralias this way would be wrong, but I think it > would fit just fine in define-obsolete-variable-alias. What then to do about non-obsolete aliases to defcustoms? Such things are used eg in find-file, emacs-lisp/warnings.el, etc, and probably outside of Emacs.