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Re: Always-true predicate?


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: Re: Always-true predicate?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 06:52:57 -0600

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I must diverge somewhat here, and express my uneasiness, to say the
> least, with the recent-ish fashion of making too many user options
> have function values.  It makes "M-x set-variable" much less
> convenient than it should be, and it makes customizing such options
> harder for users who aren't proficient in Lisp.

Could you elaborate on how it makes it harder to customize?  Doesn't
`customize-option' hide that away?

BTW, should perhaps `set-variable' support completing on the forms in
:type somehow?  Is that a realistic idea?



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