From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Glenn Morris'" <rgm@gnu.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: What version of Emacs still requires '*' in defcustom docs?
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:33:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F6EB9EB31449486280586DA81F239691@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nu4nuxx9rh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > Eg GNU Emacs has not needed this since at least 21.1 (see
> > user-variable-p).
Yes, and it was 21.1 that _introduced_ the bug (#10475), which is still there.
Two steps forward, one step back. Half-baked.
> PS 21.1 is over 10 years old.
So are some Emacs users. ;-)
Does it bother you that `C-h v' should have to accommodate a leading `*' for a
user variable, even though `defcustom' no longer _requires_ a leading `*'? All
it has to do is ignore (strip) it. What's the big deal? The fix is trivial,
and is provided in the bug report.
Besides, `C-h v' needs to do the same thing _anyway_ for a user variable defined
this way:
(defvar toto 42 "*This IS a user var. Always has been.")
`toto' is a user variable, as defined and recognized by `user-variable-p' (which
you cited) and as recognized by `set-variable'.
Circulez ; il n'y a rien a voir.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-11 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-11 22:29 What version of Emacs still requires '*' in defcustom docs? Glenn Morris
2012-02-11 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-11 22:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-11 23:33 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-12 10:16 ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-12 15:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-12 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-12 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-12 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-13 6:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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