Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes

[Kevin Rodgers]

David Kastrup wrote:

> If set-variable does not tend to consult the "customize" data
> structures in other circumstances, it would be unexpected if it did
> in this case.


But it already does, via user-variable-p (when called interactively), which
used to restrict the user to *-documented symbols but now also allows symbols
with custom properties.  (Stefan thinks that's an improvement, but I think
custom variables should still have been required to have * doc strings.)

> I do seem to remember, though, that set-variable
> declined setting a variable to values opposed to any possibly
> customize declaration.


Yep, set-variable does use the symbol's custom-type property.

> So perhaps making set-variable do pretty much
> the "set for current session" operation procedure of customize would
> be sensible behavior.
>
> That does not imply that the current behavior would be a bug, simply
> that it might make sense to change it (along with its documentation).


Why not just (defalias 'set-variable 'customize-variable) and be done with it?


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Kevin Rodgers