From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Cc: nick@tenpoint.co.nz, 24229-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24229: 25.1; Can't set EPA program
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:40:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831t1ldrkt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <od1y43txgd9.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> (message from Daiki Ueno on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:22:42 +0200)
> From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, nick@tenpoint.co.nz, 24229-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:22:42 +0200
>
> >> It's not uncommon for the doc of Emacs variables to say:
> >>
> >> Setting this variable directly does not have any effect;
> >> instead use \\[customize] or <some setter function>.
> >>
> >> IMO that's all that's needed here too.
> >
> > If there's no better way, yes.
>
> As I really don't have any better idea, I have took the Glenn's
> suggestion.
In that case, please also document the special meaning of setting the
variable to the same value as the default. I think this special
meaning is not self-evident without some explicit documentation.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-19 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-15 4:58 bug#24229: 25.1; Can't set EPA program Nick Helm
2016-08-15 22:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-08-16 0:56 ` Nick Helm
2016-08-16 19:38 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-17 0:18 ` Nick Helm
2016-08-17 7:46 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-17 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-18 7:14 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-18 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-18 15:08 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-18 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-18 15:46 ` Glenn Morris
2016-08-18 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-19 9:22 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-08-19 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-17 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-08-18 1:32 ` Nick Helm
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