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bug#10773: set-variable can't change values of user options
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#10773: set-variable can't change values of user options |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 11:14:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Shouldn't we be using `defcustom` instead of hard-coding Custom's
>>> "internal" properties?
>> Yes. But I was worried that defcustom would be too heavy-handed here.
>
> I think if you're worried about the "cost" of `defcustom`, then we may
> as well stick to `defvar`
I was mainly worried that defcustom had further other subtle effects
that I'm not aware of (:group? :version? the mandatory doc string?), but
looking at the code in custom-declare-variable, it looks pretty
straightforward... (Famous last words.)
> (after all, it's not like it'll be very easy/convenient for the user
> to use the Custom UI to add a function on those hooks).
I think there's probably several bug reports about doing something about
that. :-/
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