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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: eval-defun on defcustom :initialize / :set
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:28:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F6490C.5050409@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v963ux7il4.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

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Reiner Steib wrote:
|
| I think `eval-defun' (C-M-x) on a defcustom which has should evaluate
| the :initialize or :set function.
|
| Real-life example: Changing the list of regexps in
| `smiley-regexp-alist' and doing `C-M-x' has no effect.  I modified and
| evaluated the defcustom several times until I noticed that I need to
| eval `(smiley-update-cache)' as well before my change does anything.

it is not obvious that this is correct.
defcustom is similar to defvar which does not set the the variable if it
is already defined.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-04 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-04 14:03 23.0.60; Feature request: eval-defun on defcustom :initialize / :set Reiner Steib
2008-04-04 15:28 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
2008-04-04 15:33   ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-04 18:10     ` Sam Steingold
2008-04-04 19:07       ` lisp-eval-defun on defvar (was: 23.0.60; Feature request: eval-defun on defcustom :initialize / :set) Reiner Steib

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