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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables]
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:58:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4737A53E.1010208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DHEEKFAFJEFOJHLCFPFDEEEGCCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

Drew Adams wrote:
>> Why not use the custom buffer in such cases
>> (and of course allow good completion there)? Maybe set-option(-default)
>> could suggest/ask about that in those cases? Or maybe switch to the
>> custom buffer then? (If that is not too confusing.)
> 
> No. The whole point is to have a quick and powerful command that you can use
> *outside* Customize. There are already commands to use Customize to
> customize things.

I think it will be unusable for more complex defcustoms.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-12  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19 19:08 apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables Drew Adams
2007-10-19 20:24 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-19 20:42   ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21  6:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-21  7:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 20:41   ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-22  0:55     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-23  0:35       ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-23  7:11         ` Drew Adams
2007-10-26  3:48           ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-26 22:43             ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-27 13:58               ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 22:46                 ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables] Drew Adams
2007-11-11 21:11                   ` Drew Adams
2007-11-11 21:34                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12  0:43                       ` Drew Adams
2007-11-12  0:58                         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-11-12  5:59                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-12 12:33                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-11-12 15:30                       ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands forcommands, " Drew Adams
2007-11-12 17:10                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-11-12 19:23                           ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commandsforcommands, " Drew Adams
2007-11-12 20:32                             ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-23  7:12     ` apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables Richard Stallman
2007-10-25 20:59       ` Juri Linkov

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