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From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
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 <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: custom-set-variables considered harmful
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:42:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+OMD9hYbP+CHk60tyojs446CAsWuN5bOWwr78B3SsgAvLhvAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8782ed42-3aec-4111-b4f0-471c838e7370@default>

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On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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.
>

​I have been wondering about this too.  Are there any arguments for not
having setq run the setter of a custom option when available?  Is it a
performance issue?
Is it a load ordering issue?

If there is no fundamental issue, then this would be great because one
wouldn't have to worry about the type of a variable when setting it.

Bob

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-01 20:42 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 [this message]
2017-12-02  0:10                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-02  1:58                     ` Drew Adams
2017-12-02  5:56                 ` Teemu Likonen
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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