From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:55:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200506301655.j5UGt2404389@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200506271609.j5RG9i020638@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87vf3ztg62.fsf@jurta.org> <87br5pri6l.fsf@jurta.org> <87psu4ve2r.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120150313 10075 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2005 16:51:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 18:51:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do2GP-0004b9-Jl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:51:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do2Og-00058n-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do2OU-00056y-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do2OQ-00055Z-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do2OQ-00054t-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:00:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Do2Qv-00071e-0W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5UGusCK000105; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:56:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j5UGt2404389; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:55:02 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: lekktu@gmail.com In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:16:18 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39959 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39959 Juanma Barranquero wrote: On 6/30/05, Juri Linkov wrote: > so why wouldn't it also run a setter specified > by the `:set' custom keyword? It probably should. I'll take a look at it. I'm not custom expert, though; I hardly use the stuff. I have not been following this thread. Are you discussing making set-variable calling any :set function? We decided quite a while ago to do that. But there are some subtleties involved, for instance with buffer local variables. We decided to put it off till after the release. Sincerely, Luc.