GNU bug report logs - #10429
23.3; Many "user variables" in man.el aren't defined accordingly

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Message #11 received at 10429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 10429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10429: 23.3;
	Many "user variables" in man.el aren't defined accordingly
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:38:07 +0800

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

>> Perhaps it would not provide much real benefit to expose all of the
>> regular expressions through customize (especially with the way many of
>> the bigger ones are built up from smaller pieces). Everything else,
>> however, would probably work quite nicely.
>
> It would clutter the Customization interface to include all variables.
> But we could include at least whose customization is suggested in docstrings,
> like e.g. the docstring of `man' says:
>
>   Add to `Man-switches' to make this option permanent.
>
> so making `Man-switches' customizable would be reasonable.

I converted the ones which make sense into defcustoms.

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