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bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really? |
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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:30:48 -0400 |
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> I probably should have said "that the definitions of the variables have
> been written carefully" so nobody would have come to a conclusion like
> > so that they DTRT if the
> > user sets one with setq in an init file.
> which is not what I had in mind.
I am now not sure what you had in mind.
However, we seem to have reached conflicting conclusions.
You say that
> Then it seems to say that setting one of these variable with setq (in
> an init file?) is almost surely a bug.
but everything else in this discussion seems to support the opposite
conclusion: setting one of these variables with setq in an init file,
in the usual simple case (you haven't loaded the definition yet), is
perfectly ok.
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bug#21695: [External] : bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really?, Drew Adams, 2021/09/02
bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really?, Richard Stallman, 2021/09/03