Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable

[Juri Linkov]

>    > so why wouldn't it also run a setter specified
>    > by the `:set' custom keyword?
>
>    It probably should. I'll take a look at it. I'm not custom expert,
>    though; I hardly use the stuff.
>
> I have not been following this thread.  Are you discussing making
> set-variable calling any :set function?  We decided quite a while ago
> to do that.  But there are some subtleties involved, for instance with
> buffer local variables.  We decided to put it off till after the
> release.

I don't remember what the decision was, but if it was to postpone this
until the next release, then perhaps this should be added to etc/TODO.

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Juri Linkov
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