GNU bug report logs - #10907
24.0.94; Updating display of Customize buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:12:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.0.94

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 10907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 10907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10907: 24.0.94; Updating display of Customize buffer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:33:16 +0100

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:00:15 +0100 Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> *Note (elisp) Customization Types::
>
>        You specify the customization type in `defcustom' with the `:type'
>     keyword.  The argument of `:type' is evaluated, but only once when the
>     `defcustom' is executed, so it isn't useful for the value to vary.

Ah, thanks.  I feared as much.  Is there really no way to reevaluate a
defcustom in a running Emacs?  It would be very useful.

Steve Berman
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