From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:57:27 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87vf3ui3hg.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200506271609.j5RG9i020638@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87vf3ztg62.fsf@jurta.org> <87br5pri6l.fsf@jurta.org> <87psu4ve2r.fsf@jurta.org> <200506301655.j5UGt2404389@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120274520 24207 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2005 03:22:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 03:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 02 05:21:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoYZn-0000up-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:21:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoYiN-00030L-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoYhC-0002jL-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:29:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoYh9-0002iK-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoYgl-0002Y9-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.116] (helo=HOT-Bounce1.hot.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoYOS-0003Eu-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (Relay4 [192.168.1.23]) by HOT-Bounce1.hot.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F53114F1B7 for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 05:51:19 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-37-19-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.37.19]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8142151; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 06:04:01 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200506301655.j5UGt2404389@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:55:02 -0500 (CDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40074 > > so why wouldn't it also run a setter specified > > by the `:set' custom keyword? > > It probably should. I'll take a look at it. I'm not custom expert, > though; I hardly use the stuff. > > I have not been following this thread. Are you discussing making > set-variable calling any :set function? We decided quite a while ago > to do that. But there are some subtleties involved, for instance with > buffer local variables. We decided to put it off till after the > release. I don't remember what the decision was, but if it was to postpone this until the next release, then perhaps this should be added to etc/TODO. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/