outline-regexp

[Andreas Roehler]

Customizing `outline-regexp' in Emacs-Lisp-mode turned
out to be difficult:

Setting with `customize-variable' didn't have effect.

`describe-variable' told

,----
| outline-regexp is a variable defined in `outline.el'.
| Its value is
| ";;;\\(;* [^     \n]\\|###autoload\\)\\|("
| Local in buffer eil.el; global value is "[*\f]+"
`----

However, outline.el showed:

(defcustom outline-regexp "[*\^L]+"

whereas `customize-variable' displayed an entry

^[ \t]*(defun

(probably due to an earlier customization.)

AFAIS `outline-regexp' is set by a function
`lisp-mode-variables' in lisp-mode.el via `setq'

with the result, that's neither mentioned in
`load-history' nor listed in TAGS.

Given, I didn't oversee something important, it seems
worthwhile to re-consider this.

What about to drop setting in lisp-mode.el and let the
global value in effect instead? We would gain a
customization facility.


Thanks

__
Andreas Roehler



GNU Emacs 22.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit,
Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-10-28