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Re: Comments on setopt


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Comments on setopt
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:47:19 +0200

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net,  larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:07:44 +0800
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >   > This macro sets a customizable variable in Emacs, it's not related to
> >   > `getopt'.  Here is its definition:
> 
> > Since it isn't meant for the command line options that `getopt' examines,
> > the name `setopt' is misleading.  (It already misled me!)
> > This name should be changed to something longer and clearer.
> 
> How about `set-custom-variable'?

set-user-option is better, IMO.



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