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Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes |
Date: |
27 Nov 2003 09:30:40 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> I don't see the harm is adding a "redundant" custom-var, as long as the
> variable does not appear in any normal group and is thus only accessed via
> M-x customize-variable or M-x set-variable or somesuch.
> One obvious harm could be two "dueling entries" in the
> custom-set-variables form.
It's a source of confusion, maybe, but it's not harmful as far as I know.
More specifically, such problems are not serious enough to force us
to fix them all before we can change the behavior of defvar.
By the way: currently we already have those duelling entries in M-x
set-variable. And even if we "fix" set-variable so it does not
show enable-multibyte-characters (because it doesn't have a * in its
docstring), we still have the "duelling" effect in that set-variable
shows one and M-x customize-variable shows the other and the user
has no idea what's the difference.
I.e. this problem is orthogonal with what we're discussing.
Stefan
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, (continued)
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, David Kastrup, 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, David Kastrup, 2003/11/20
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/28
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/29
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/30
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/28
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/26
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/11/27
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/27
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/27
- Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/11/27