From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, philipk@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comments on setopt
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:47:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iltbz1ig.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r17zo34v.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:07:44 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:07:44 +0800
>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > > This macro sets a customizable variable in Emacs, it's not related to
> > > `getopt'. Here is its definition:
>
> > Since it isn't meant for the command line options that `getopt' examines,
> > the name `setopt' is misleading. (It already misled me!)
> > This name should be changed to something longer and clearer.
>
> How about `set-custom-variable'?
set-user-option is better, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-19 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-14 23:01 Comments on setopt Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-15 3:40 ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-16 7:04 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-02-16 9:52 ` Phil Sainty
2022-02-16 13:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-16 22:34 ` Phil Sainty
2022-02-16 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-16 22:57 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-16 7:13 ` Po Lu
2022-02-19 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-19 5:07 ` Po Lu
2022-02-19 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-02-19 11:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-19 11:52 ` Mathias Dahl
2022-02-19 12:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-02-19 14:41 ` Name for `setopt` (was: Comments on setopt) Stefan Monnier
2022-02-19 18:31 ` Comments on setopt Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-19 23:42 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-15 9:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-15 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-15 17:20 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-17 11:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-15 17:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-15 19:22 ` Juri Linkov
2022-02-17 11:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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