bug#58282: Distinguishing glasses-mode display

[uzibalqa]

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On Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 at 6:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:09:53 +0000
> > From: uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me
> > Cc: dimech@gmx.com, 58282@debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > > You cannot simply assign the value to this variable. Look at its
> > > defcustom form to understand what is missing.
> > > 
> > > And anyway, what does this have to do with the bug report? You are
> > > asking basic Emacs Lisp questions.
> > 
> > Because I can use utf, I can easily distinguish between code and glasses 
> > display.
> > This feature solves my problem.
> 
> 
> So do use it. It is possible and supported, just not by a simple
> setq.
> 
> Here's the defcustom of that option from glasses.el:
> 
> (defcustom glasses-separator "_"
> "String to be displayed as a visual separator in identifiers.
> It is used both for adding missing separators and for replacing separators
> defined by `glasses-original-separator'. If you don't want to add missing 
> separators, set` glasses-separator' to an empty string. If you don't want to
> replace existent separators, set `glasses-original-separator' to an empty
> string."
> :type 'string
> :set 'glasses-custom-set
> :initialize 'custom-initialize-default)
> 
> What does the :set attribute tell you?

I could call (glasses-set-overlay-properties)