Subject: Re: bug#11565: delayed init variables don't get documentation properties

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 16:27:42 -0400

>>> I guess either we undo 3), or change 2) so that it sets the variable to
>>> nil.  The latter seems ok to me ...?
>> Undoing the var-part of 3 sounds fine to me.
> There's a downside to doing that, in that bug#11036 will be reopened.

It doesn't strike me as a serious problem.

> What's the downside to making custom-initialize-delay temporarily bind
> variables to nil?

The downside is that I don't know the consequences ;-)

> Another option: Snarf-documentation to check if variables are bound, or
> members of custom-delayed-init-variables.

Yuck.

> PS this issue will presumably go away if you go through with
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-05/msg00474.html

That's likely to happen, indeed.

        Stefan