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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.



  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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