From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:02:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85slyu5wsz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DpU7a-0004uT-Q2@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:48:38 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Actually, I forgot that, unlike customize-face, customize-variable
> does not allow to enter variables that are defvarred or defvaraliased,
> rather than defcustomed.
>
> I think that is partly a bug--it should allow an alias if its "real"
> name has a defcustom.
But then it should go to the customize dialog for the "real"
variable. Everything else would be too confusing in the long run,
particularly if you are saving options in your .emacs file.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-04 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-19 11:14 Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Yoni Rabkin
2005-06-20 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-20 8:21 ` Yoni Rabkin
2005-06-20 9:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-21 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-26 23:23 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-27 13:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 15:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 16:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 18:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 18:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 19:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 1:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-04 16:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 17:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-05 1:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-05 16:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-07 1:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-07 21:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 0:07 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-28 8:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-29 9:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-30 8:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-30 16:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 19:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-01 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-07-02 4:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 2:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 20:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 18:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 21:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 4:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-28 8:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 4:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 9:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 9:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28 16:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-29 9:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 3:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 16:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
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