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bug#57847: Emacs Reference Lisp Manual on defcustom
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#57847: Emacs Reference Lisp Manual on defcustom |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:00:56 -0700 |
severity 57847 wishlist
thanks
uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> I am reading the Elisp manual
This is from An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp:
(info "(eintr) defcustom")
> 16.2 Specifying Variables using defcustom
>
> The custom-set-variables function works somewhat differently than a setq.
> While I have never learned the differences, I modify the custom-set-variables
> expressions in my .emacs file by hand: I make the changes in what appears to
> me to be a reasonable manner and have not had any problems. Others prefer to
> use the Customization command and let Emacs do the work for them.
>
> I myself use customize for hardly anything. Mostly, I write expressions
> myself.
>
> Why are we talking like this !!! "I have never learned the differences" and
> "I myself use customize for hardly anything."
That's just the style that this manual is written in. Maybe we could
explain what `custom-set-*' actually does instead, or even mention the
new `setopt'. Or we could just leave it alone: either way is fine by
me.