From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: define-obsolete-variable-alias problem
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:16:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sviqyqalew.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
Given this sequence:
(progn
(setq foo 1)
(define-obsolete-variable-alias 'foo 'bar)
(defvar bar 2))
I'd have expected the end result to be bar = foo = 1.
However, the actual result is bar = foo = 2.
This is a problem for the case where I have:
(setq old-variable-name 1)
in my ~/.emacs, and a package uses:
(define-obsolete-variable-name 'old-variable-name 'new-variable-name)
(defcustom new-variable-name 2)
because it means that my customization is ignored. The only solution
seems to be to ;;;###autoload the define-obsolete-variable-name
statement, and AFAICS by extension every such statement in Emacs,
where the variable is user option that might be set in ~.emacs. Is
this really how it is supposed to work?
next reply other threads:[~2008-04-09 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 19:16 Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-04-10 4:54 ` define-obsolete-variable-alias problem Nick Roberts
2008-04-11 1:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 3:53 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-11 4:12 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-11 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 18:03 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-11 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 20:14 ` Glenn Morris
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