Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Richard Stallman wrote:

   If you just leave this function unchanged and install the rest,
   it should work.  However, it would be good to make one additional
   change: the same commands should display a message of the form
      `%s' is an alias for `%s'
   in the echo area.

What about the following new patch?

===File ~/cus-edit-diff=====================================
*** cus-edit.el	06 Jul 2005 17:24:52 -0500	1.226
--- cus-edit.el	06 Jul 2005 20:06:50 -0500	
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*** 1021,1029 ****
  (defun customize-option (symbol)
    "Customize SYMBOL, which must be a user option variable."
    (interactive (custom-variable-prompt))
!   (custom-buffer-create (list (list symbol 'custom-variable))
! 			(format "*Customize Option: %s*"
! 				(custom-unlispify-tag-name symbol))))
  
  ;;;###autoload
  (defalias 'customize-variable-other-window 'customize-option-other-window)
--- 1021,1032 ----
  (defun customize-option (symbol)
    "Customize SYMBOL, which must be a user option variable."
    (interactive (custom-variable-prompt))
!   (let ((basevar (indirect-variable symbol)))
!     (custom-buffer-create (list (list basevar 'custom-variable))
! 			  (format "*Customize Option: %s*"
! 				  (custom-unlispify-tag-name basevar)))
!     (unless (eq symbol basevar)
!       (message "`%s' is an alias for `%s'" symbol basevar))))
  
  ;;;###autoload
  (defalias 'customize-variable-other-window 'customize-option-other-window)
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*** 1033,1041 ****
    "Customize SYMBOL, which must be a user option variable.
  Show the buffer in another window, but don't select it."
    (interactive (custom-variable-prompt))
!   (custom-buffer-create-other-window
!    (list (list symbol 'custom-variable))
!    (format "*Customize Option: %s*" (custom-unlispify-tag-name symbol))))
  
  (defvar customize-changed-options-previous-release "20.2"
    "Version for `customize-changed-options' to refer back to by default.")
--- 1036,1047 ----
    "Customize SYMBOL, which must be a user option variable.
  Show the buffer in another window, but don't select it."
    (interactive (custom-variable-prompt))
!   (let ((basevar (indirect-variable symbol)))
!     (custom-buffer-create-other-window
!      (list (list basevar 'custom-variable))
!      (format "*Customize Option: %s*" (custom-unlispify-tag-name basevar)))
!     (unless (eq symbol basevar)
!       (message "`%s' is an alias for `%s'" symbol basevar))))
  
  (defvar customize-changed-options-previous-release "20.2"
    "Version for `customize-changed-options' to refer back to by default.")
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