From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: `set-variable' should use :set
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:48:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v7jqchc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3r3qd44.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:34:35 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>> However, it does not respect a defcustom :set. I'm thinking that it should, so
>> that using `set-variable' would indeed be a proper shortcut for setting an
>> option value.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me....
BTW, my vague impression is that `set-variable' is pretty lightly used,
maybe because it's not that much more convenient than just "M-: (setq..."
Making this change might make it a much more useful command...
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-22 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 17:25 `set-variable' should use :set Drew Adams
2010-10-22 0:34 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 0:48 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-10-22 1:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 2:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22 4:34 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 7:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22 8:29 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-22 10:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-22 13:40 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 14:02 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-22 22:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-23 4:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-23 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-23 17:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-23 18:44 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-23 19:01 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-24 16:15 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-22 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-22 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22 8:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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