From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: custom and defalias Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:21:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200502200121.j1K1Lrq29264@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108986601 7473 80.91.229.2 (21 Feb 2005 11:50:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 21 12:50:00 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3C4Q-0007wX-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:49:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3CLL-0001AE-Tm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3BCf-0002fV-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3BCc-0002do-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3BAA-0002DB-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D3Ah0-0001vD-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:21:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D3Agz-0004qg-QJ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:21:29 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200502200121.j1K1Lrq29264@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:21:53 -0600 (CST)) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33666 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33666 I relatively recently committed the patch below to custom.el. What the patch did was make Custom recognize aliases. For instance, the option `blink-cursor' was recently declared obsolete and made into an alias for `blink-cursor-mode'. Without the patch, if blink-cursor was set in the `custom-set-variables' form, it would no longer get recognized. After the patch it is recognized. But then Custom updates the obsolete `blink-cursor' with `blink-cursor-mode', which would be ideal, except that if one then uses the same custom-set-variables form in Emacs 21.3, it does not work any more. I do not know what to do with this. Unless someone has an idea for a change that is clearly desirable, we should just live with it.