From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes Date: 20 Nov 2003 10:46:55 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87wua28zux.fsf@zip.com.au> <87ad6vdsxi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200311190418.hAJ4ITC02466@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200311190528.hAJ5SrK02553@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <3FBBD155.2050703@yahoo.com> <200311192238.hAJMcTM06424@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069343583 8084 80.91.224.253 (20 Nov 2003 15:53:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:53:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ihs_4664@yahoo.com, Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 16:52:58 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMr74-0000pz-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:52:58 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMr73-0006xm-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:52:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMs3r-0004tY-EH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMs0Z-0004F1-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMs00-0003xZ-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMrz1-0003UH-Um; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAKFktbj028301; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B1EBF3C63E; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:46:55 -0500 (EST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17970 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17970 > If set-variable does not tend to consult the "customize" data > structures in other circumstances, it would be unexpected if it did > in this case. I do seem to remember, though, that set-variable > declined setting a variable to values opposed to any possibly > customize declaration. So perhaps making set-variable do pretty much > the "set for current session" operation procedure of customize would > be sensible behavior. > That does not imply that the current behavior would be a bug, simply > that it might make sense to change it (along with its documentation). It's a user-level operation which is likely in those circumstances not to do what the user intended to do. It qualifies as a bug (although probably minor) for me. The user should at least be made aware of the problem (at the very least in the manual). Stefan