GNU bug report logs - #12309
24.2.50; Option `(bookmark-)version-control': Use :tag so doc string matches menu

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.2.50

Done: Karl Fogel <kfogel <at> red-bean.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 12309-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel <at> openitp.org>
Cc: 12309-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12309: Option `(bookmark-)version-control': Use :tag so doc
	string matches menu
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:41:50 +0200

Karl Fogel <kfogel <at> openitp.org> writes:

> I don't fully understand the whole customization system because I never
> use it myself (I just read doc strings and set variables directly in
> Elisp), so I don't quite get what `other' mean if used instead of
> `const', and I didn't fully understand the last paragraph of the
> original bug report.  I looked in the Info pages, but they didn't
> clarify much about this.

const only matches the specified value, other matches any value, but
uses the specified value when setting.  Thus setting the variable
manually to 'foo won't get a mismatch.  You can see the documentation of
each widget with widget-browse.

Andreas.

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