From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:17:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87slz6nr3h.fsf@jurta.org> <200506271609.j5RG9i020638@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119895964 26605 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 18:12:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:12:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 20:12:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmy5M-0007rY-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:11:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmyD3-00027C-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmyCV-0001yY-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmyCP-0001v4-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmyCP-0001uK-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:19:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.206] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DmyEo-0005z4-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so183881nfe for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:17:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EDBt+D+DrrL62zTHCb1exIO9I9T7zTYV0c2h0zOWst8c1ZOODV1wZre5OIvKjJEOTZn64i6MxwCfF5AM2imUu605tc9OmHbRvAz2LE9usCEz7kl4eWCUW6U0hwddjH5PnA2bcK6ctFINp5OimaNrpeb4mxvG/cpuOAyDu0II25s= Original-Received: by 10.48.240.16 with SMTP id n16mr102041nfh; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200506271609.j5RG9i020638@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Content-Disposition: inline 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39681 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39681 > I do not know whether or not it is important for `set-variable' to be > consistent with that. Maybe not. I just wanted to be sure that you > are aware of the `customize' situation. AFAICS, customize-face does nothing special, other than filtering out aliases (but accepts them if the user types them). The set-variable situation is very different: it does not accept a variable name unless it thinks it is a user-variable, so the easiest answer is just making it believe that aliases of user-variables are also user-variables. This will generate more answers in the completion list; I'm not sure whether that is a problem or not (I tend to think that it is not, as the list is pruned quite quickly as the user types in characters). --=20 /L/e/k/t/u