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Re: Incorrect terminology in Customize doc
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Incorrect terminology in Customize doc |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:09:41 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Some of the Customize documentation incorrectly refers to user
> preferences, which can be either faces or variables, as "user
> options". In Emacs terminology (elsewhere, and longstanding), a "user
> option" is a `user-variable-p', that is, a variable that users are
> intended to change (its doc string has "*" at the beginning).
Since all custom vars are user-variable-p, I think it make sense to expand
the notion of "user option" to also include other custom-izable objects
like faces.
Stefan