From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 'Miles Bader' <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: `set-variable' should use :set
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:20:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp6nklx2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <033D7FA139144B03B1370B9E9C1113ED@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams writes:
> However, I disagree that [set-variable] is not that much more
> convenient than setq. For one thing, it respects the defcustom
> :type spec. For another, it uses a proper interactive spec. The
> type-checking in particular is a win, IMO.
I don't find either of those noticable. Except when type-checking
conflicts with the lack of :set support, which can be confusing.
> (FWIW, I use it often.)
I'm curious, what are your use cases? When I find myself using
set-variable (more likely, setq), it's invariably a symptom of a
defect in my environment: a command is missing an argument, an
initialization function is DT wrong T. In fact, I often do
M-: (setq foovar barval) RET
;; experiment
M-: C-p C-a C-k C-g
M-x find-function RET foo RET <mouse-2> C-j
which makes "M-: (setq ..." an effective, rather than annoying, idiom.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-22 2:20 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
2010-10-22 1:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 2:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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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