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24.3.50; document `custom-available-themes', `custom-known-themes' in Elisp manual |
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Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:39:02 -0700 (PDT) |
These functions are as important for programmers as is `custom-theme-p'.
It is especially important to distinguish them, in particular wrt
`custom-theme-p', which uses only `custom-known-themes'. An "available"
theme is not necessarily a "known" theme. This can be confusing.
For example, I was doing this at first:
(defcustom doremi-custom-themes ()
"*List of custom themes to cycle through using `doremi-custom-themes+'."
:type '(repeat (restricted-sexp :match-alternatives (custom-theme-p)))
:group 'doremi-misc-commands)
But what I really needed was the following, because the "available" themes
are not necessarily available from the outset - the set of "known" themes
is too limited for use here.
(defcustom doremi-custom-themes ()
"*List of custom themes to cycle through using `doremi-custom-themes+'."
:type '(repeat (restricted-sexp
:match-alternatives
((lambda (s) (memq s (custom-available-themes))))))
:group 'doremi-misc-commands)
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of 2013-10-19 on LEG570
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Re: bug#15717: 24.3.50; document `custom-available-themes', `custom-known-themes' in Elisp manual |
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Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:52:19 +0800 |
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Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
> These functions are as important for programmers as is
> `custom-theme-p'. It is especially important to distinguish them, in
> particular wrt `custom-theme-p', which uses only
> `custom-known-themes'. An "available" theme is not necessarily a
> "known" theme. This can be confusing.
I've added custom-known-themes to the manual, and updated the docstring
of custom-available-themes to emphasize that it's meant for things like
completion. (I don't think custom-available-themes is suitable for the
Lisp manual, but custom-theme-load-path is already documented.)
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