From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:43:52 -0500 Message-ID: <87wtusiizq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <200501040054.j040sAr12434@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104900366 1364 80.91.229.6 (5 Jan 2005 04:46:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , Reiner.Steib@gmx.de, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 05:45:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cm33S-0002vr-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 05:45:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm3Eh-0000c1-0e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm3EO-0000Xh-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm3EM-0000WT-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm3EM-0000Vn-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.74] (helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cm31X-0001D0-A3; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:43:55 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.119.166]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050105044354.TEJY2034.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:43:54 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 215742FD13; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:43:52 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:31:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31874 > AFAIR, set-variable by now obeys the :set function. So everything > that is user-visible behaves consistent. > No, that was never implemented. I do not know whether we still want > to implement it before the 21.4 release. It does not seem very > difficult for setting default values, but setting buffer local values > still would not call the :set functions (because :set functions are > designed to set _default_ values and hence often can not be used to > set buffer local values). > We could add defcustom properties :get-local and :set-local > to handle local values. This could be useful for running Custom > buffers to set things locally, also. Currently :set and :get are supposed to work buffer-locally if custom-local-buffer is non-nil. Stefan