From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:47:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87slz6nr3h.fsf@jurta.org> <200506271609.j5RG9i020638@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506271845.j5RIj3W22159@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119985549 13182 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 19:05:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 21:05:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLNE-0006gM-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:03:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLV7-0000la-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLM7-0006Fr-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLLt-00068Y-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLLt-00061L-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnLCp-0005nJ-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DnL6q-0004uv-Pg; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:47:00 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200506271845.j5RIj3W22159@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:45:03 -0500 (CDT)) 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:39808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39808 `M-x customize-face RET diary-face' brings uo a customization buffer for the face `diary' instead of for the typed alias `diary-face'. _Assuming_, of course, that diary is loaded. If not, customize-face will not recognize diary, nor diary-face. I proposed doing something similar for customize-variable. I think it is right to use the "real" name rather than the alias in the customization buffer, for variables as well as for faces. So please do make that change in customize-variable. As set-variable is not bringing any buffer, selecting X or ALIAS-OF-X to set should be similar. That is true; this issue doesn't arise for set-variable, only for Custom buffers.