From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 21601@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21601: 25.0.50; (elisp) `Common Keywords', :group
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 00:03:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg9k86de.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d14e37e-955b-4fb6-b1e4-fa1686f6f77a@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:15:20 -0800 (GMT-08:00)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > Mention here, in the part about :group, and not just in node `Variable
>> > Definitions', that if :group is not specified then the defcustom
>> > inherits the group from the last :group of a preceding defcustom in the
>> > same file.
>>
>> I did now know that. But is that something we want to encourage?
>
> It's not something that I think should be encouraged.
> But it is something that Stefan encourages. And he
> actively removes :group declarations that are not
> strictly necessary.
>
> As long as that is the practice, so that many defcustoms
> and deffaces do not have :group (and that is increasingly
> the case, for distributed Emacs code, at least), we should
> document the behavior (IMHO).
I agree. I've now mentioned this in the emacs-25 manual.
--
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2015-10-01 17:53 bug#21601: 25.0.50; (elisp) `Common Keywords', :group Drew Adams
2016-04-30 22:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 1:15 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 22:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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