From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "N. Raghavendra" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About how misspelled word are displayed Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 21:04:49 +0530 Message-ID: <87fug8wz1i.fsf@gmail.com> References: <3993ee96-42e7-e597-f7d0-306003faa235@alice.it> <40f5d8bd-8956-b3fa-1818-eb3622f6ff12@alice.it> <20170512141406.GA27429@tuxteam.de> <8479790d-443e-48fc-a59b-f14a917fafab@default> <8778c766-ce0a-4b42-939d-96b0f0b49a82@default> <87efvtzrw5.fsf@gmail.com> <262055bc-44b9-4b2b-932a-52b146a5916e@default> <87shk8x2q3.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: "N. 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[220.227.103.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i15sm15711453pfj.51.2017.05.13.08.34.51 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 13 May 2017 08:34:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sat, 13 May 2017 16:59:45 +0200") Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113022 Archived-At: At 2017-05-13T16:59:45+02:00, Emanuel Berg wrote: > The distinction between a variable and an option should not be > dramatized. Options, unlike arbitrary variables, come with a type declaration. Some options come with setting mechanisms, again unlike arbitrary variables. No dramatisation here. Just a statement of facts. > `setq' works for both as an option is a variable just as much. Sure, setq, as you say, works, but neither does it check that the values assigned to an option belong to the declared types, nor does it respect the setting mechanisms of options. I would prefer to heed these features when I assign values to options, so I have been asking about alternatives to setq like customize-set-variable. > `set-variable' is interactive so you can use it with M-x and TAB if > you don't know/remember the exact option name. > > Setting options interactively all the time should be avoided tho - > better to look for generalized configs that'll stick and be part of > your Emacs personality. I asked explicitly in my first message about a "recommended way of setting an option using Emacs Lisp directly". I don't remember saying that I want to set options or variables interactively. Cheers, Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra , http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/