From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:20:18 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FBD2202.1090201@yahoo.com> References: <87wua28zux.fsf@zip.com.au> <87ad6vdsxi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200311190418.hAJ4ITC02466@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200311190528.hAJ5SrK02553@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069360016 18243 80.91.224.253 (20 Nov 2003 20:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 21:26:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMvOA-0004g3-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:26:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMvOA-0001LG-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:26:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwK2-0003ah-AI for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:26:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwFi-0001sC-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:22:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwFC-0001XJ-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwF9-0001VW-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:21:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMvHh-0002Q2-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:20:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMvHd-0002Pq-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:20:09 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMvHd-0004UI-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:20:09 +0100 Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17979 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17979 Stefan Monnier wrote: > Programmers forget the * all the time, so people complained about some vars > being settable via customize-variable but not via set-variable, and it > was fixed so the * is irrelevant for `defcustom'. I think that's a good > thing and I'd like to bring the doc in line with the code. I think we should educate programmers to fix their broken code, not change Emacs (which wasn't broken). -- Kevin Rodgers