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Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes |
Date: |
19 Nov 2003 23:57:03 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> Anyway my point is that the difference between defcustom with and
> without a * is in practice absent and in theory much too subtle and
> debatable to justify its existence (after all, who knows whether users
> will want to set something interactively or only at startup).
> Shouldn't set-variable distinguish, at least for completion purposes?
Why should it ?
Programmers forget the * all the time, so people complained about some vars
being settable via customize-variable but not via set-variable, and it
was fixed so the * is irrelevant for `defcustom'. I think that's a good
thing and I'd like to bring the doc in line with the code.
Stefan
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, (continued)
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/30
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/21
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Miles Bader, 2003/11/21
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2003/11/21
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/23
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/20
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/11/20
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2003/11/20
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Simon Josefsson, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Juri Linkov, 2003/11/27
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/11/27
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/28
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Peter S Galbraith, 2003/11/27
Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Kevin Ryde, 2003/11/18