Re: Comments on setopt

[Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>]

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setuopt?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 12:17 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> You mean you thought this had something to do with getopt.h?  I don't
> thing confusing `setopt' with that has potential to confuse many people
> writing Lisp code -- most people haven't heard of getopt.h, there is no
> `getopt' function in Emacs Lisp, and what would setting a command line
> switch even mean?
>
> The point is that we need a variant of `setq' for user options that
> people can use when saying `M-:' and in init files, so it needs to be
> short and snappy.  `seto' and `setc' were proposed, but I thought those
> were too confusing.
>
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