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Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes |
Date: |
20 Nov 2003 17:36:54 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>> 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.
> I think we should educate programmers to fix their broken code, not change
> Emacs (which wasn't broken).
That's effort. If the only benefit is to prevent some users from using
set-variable because the programmer thinks it's too cumbersome, I find
this effort is plainly wasted.
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, 2003/11/20
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/11/20
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes,
Stefan Monnier <=
- 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