From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "Philippe Vaucher" <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>,
"Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: custom-set-variables considered harmful
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 07:56:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi71sme5.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8782ed42-3aec-4111-b4f0-471c838e7370@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:03:39 -0800 (PST)")
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Drew Adams [2017-11-29 07:03:39-08] wrote:
> Here's a crazy possibility (not a suggestion, but maybe food for
> thought): Make `setq' do `customize-set-variable' for an option and do
> what it does now otherwise.
That would be a job for setf, I think, because it is generalized
assignment macro. Common Lisp's setf works with setter functions and in
the same spirit it could work with Emacs's custom setters.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-02 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-04 17:10 custom-set-variables considered harmful Stefan Monnier
2017-11-06 9:02 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-11-06 12:19 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-11-06 16:36 ` raman
2017-11-07 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-08 10:06 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2017-11-08 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-08 14:23 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2017-11-08 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-08 15:34 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2017-11-13 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-24 7:04 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-11-24 7:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-24 17:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-11-24 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-26 12:15 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-11-26 16:30 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-28 14:12 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-11-28 16:50 ` John Wiegley
2017-12-01 9:44 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-11-29 3:36 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-11-29 15:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-29 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2017-12-01 20:42 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-02 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-02 1:58 ` Drew Adams
2017-12-02 5:56 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2017-11-29 16:35 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-11-29 19:57 ` Scott Randby
2017-11-29 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-30 0:40 ` Scott Randby
2017-12-01 9:51 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-12-04 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-04 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-04 16:05 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-04 23:50 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-05 1:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-23 20:12 ` John Wiegley
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