From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bad value to a defcustom makes choices unavailable
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:29:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EE6A0C.7050807@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508011820.j71IKNr05302@raven.dms.auburn.edu>
Luc Teirlinck wrote:
>Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but in my case I want another value
> than the available choices to be an error. I want the user to be able to
> correct this by choosing one of the available alternatives (ie if they
> were available).
>
>The illegal value could only have been obtained by the user setting it
>outside Custom, for instance with a setq in his .emacs. The user can
>not reliably correct the problem through Custom, he has to correct the
>problem where the problem originated (probably .emacs).
>
>
Let us say that someone writes a defcustom in a package he distributes.
Later she/he for some reason changes the list of choices. If a user has
saved a value through custom that now no longer exists he can not
correct it through custom. Perhaps the user does not know elisp at all.
I think it would be good then if the list of choices were available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-01 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-01 15:45 Bad value to a defcustom makes choices unavailable Lennart Borgman
2005-08-01 17:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-01 17:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-01 17:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
[not found] ` <42EE665A.3060208@student.lu.se>
[not found] ` <200508011820.j71IKNr05302@raven.dms.auburn.edu>
2005-08-01 18:29 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-08-01 20:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-01 20:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-02 16:09 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-08-02 17:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-03 10:24 ` Per Abrahamsen
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