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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really? |
Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:00:41 +0000 |
The point is not to display unnecessary warnings. The point is only to display warnings for custom variables that should not be set with setq because they have a :set form, or IOW, to display warnings for custom variables that should be set with customize-set-variables.I checked most of our uses of :set and agree that they usually behave well-mannered so using `setq' instead is practically always a bug indeed.
Thank you. So this has now been (at least) double-checked.
But if the warnings are not displayed for byte-compiled code I miss who their major addressee would be.
Users who use setq in their init files where customize-set-variable should be used, and users who use setq interactively (with e.g. M-:) when they should have used customize-set-variable instead. In particular newcomers who might be puzzled to see that (setq foo t) does not work as they think it should.
Anyway, I don't feel a lot of enthusiasm for that feature, so I think it's probably better to let the patch rest in peace.
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