Re: Always-true predicate?

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Could you elaborate on how it makes it harder to customize?
>
> Isn't it clear that typing a function at set-variable's prompt is much
> less convenient than typing an atom, like a symbol, a string, or a
> number?  For starters, it is much more typing.  And then it's easy to
> make a mistake, which will require you to start over again.

Oh, sorry I misunderstood you.  I thought we only talked about
"customizing" in reference to `customize'.

> Customization is about _changing_ the defaults, not about leaving them
> unchanged.  Typing a function's name, let alone a lambda-expression,
> in the Custom form is no fun.  So having a user option whose value
> _must_ be a function is a PITA.

Yes, that's true.