Re: Symbol’s value as variable is void: lock-file-name-transforms

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-07-16 13:31:41] wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> This is bug#49507, and we're discussing what to do about it.
>> Why not remove the :initialize attribute from it?  I thought this was
>> agreed upon.
> I don't see why we should?  This problem can happen with any defcustom
> with :initialize in it, I think?  (And we have a lot of those.)  So we
> should fix the mechanism instead of altering the defcustom.

I suspect that fixing the mechanism so that it can be used "reliably"
for any variable might prove very difficult.  So I think a better use of
our time is to keep using that feature as sparingly as possible.

[ Where "that feature" is `custom-initialize-delay` and not
  `:initialize`.  ]


        Stefan