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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: custom type `color' is not enforced
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:59:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1J5Z2r-0000lo-0T@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEEOJCFAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

    >     `C-h M-o color RET TAB' correctly gives all options defined with :type
    >     `color' (rigid equality test). However, since Emacs currently does not
    >     distinguish type `color' from type `string' (= this bug),
    >
    > That statement surprises me.  The two types have different names, and
    > don't behave the same, so in what sense does Emacs not distinguish
    > them?

    Please reread what I said:

You said Emacs does not distinguish type `color' from type `string'.
That's mistaken; it does distinguish them.  They behave differently.

I agree it would be good to make `color' check for a valid color.
I hope someone will do that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-21  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-02  8:55 custom type `color' is not enforced Drew Adams
2007-12-02  8:59 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-18 23:00   ` Drew Adams
2007-12-20  0:53     ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-20  1:27       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21  3:04         ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-20 19:11       ` Drew Adams
2007-12-20 19:27         ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21  3:59         ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-21  6:47           ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21  3:59         ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-12-21  6:48           ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21  9:36           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 18:20             ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 22:03               ` Drew Adams
2007-12-22  6:29             ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-22 20:58               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-23 10:54                 ` Per Abrahamsen
2007-12-23 12:46                   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-25 13:52                     ` Per Abrahamsen

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