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: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:18:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200507040118.j641ImO12290@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <87slz6nr3h.fsf@jurta.org> <200506271609.j5RG9i020638@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506271845.j5RIj3W22159@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120440496 3469 80.91.229.2 (4 Jul 2005 01:28:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 01:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 04 03:28:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpFki-0002XP-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:28:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpFlu-0003h5-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpFhp-0001gn-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpFhW-0001Uc-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpFhT-0001Tk-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpFjO-00008y-VZ; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:26:43 -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 j641KnCK026914; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:20:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j641ImO12290; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:18:49 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) 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:40295 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40295 Richard Stallman wrote: I think it is right to use the "real" name rather than the alias in the customization buffer, for variables as well as for faces. So please do make that change in customize-variable. Actually, I forgot that, unlike customize-face, customize-variable does not allow to enter variables that are defvarred or defvaraliased, rather than defcustomed. So the problem does not arise for variable aliases. The person trying the alias will see that it does not complete. After investigating the problem using `C-h v', he will see that it is an alias and gets a link to customize the actual option. Sincerely, Luc.