From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes Date: 20 Nov 2003 21:58:23 +0100 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> <3FBD2533.6090503@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069363439 26595 80.91.224.253 (20 Nov 2003 21:23:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 22:23:56 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 1AMwHM-0008WT-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:23:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMwHM-0001wo-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:23:56 +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 1AMx3S-0001LZ-Dw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwxC-0007cg-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwwg-0007RE-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.226.11.180] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwq8-00058S-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:59:52 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAKKwOdv018984 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:58:25 +0100 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id hAKKwOL9018980; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:58:24 +0100 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: <3FBD2533.6090503@yahoo.com> Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:17984 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17984 Kevin Rodgers writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > > I do seem to remember, though, that set-variable > > declined setting a variable to values opposed to any possibly > > customize declaration. > > > Yep, set-variable does use the symbol's custom-type property. > > > 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). > > > Why not just (defalias 'set-variable 'customize-variable) and be > done with it? Because I may want to experiment with several settings by using the command line history of set-variable. customize-variable, in contrast, uses a widget hierarchy you have to wade through with TAB and similar. Quite different. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum