GNU bug report logs - #15455
24.3.50; wrong defcustom :type for `confirm-kill-emacs'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; wrong defcustom :type for `confirm-kill-emacs'
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:13:39 -0700 (PDT)

The Value Menu in Customize wrongly give the user no way to specify an
arbitrary predicate, and wrongly gives the impression that the option
value must be one of the two predicates presented (or nil).

The :type spec should provide a third possibility for the menu: an
arbitrary function (which is used as a predicate).

That menu item's :tag should make clear that the function is used as
a predicate: nil means..., non-nil means....

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2013-09-20 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 157 days ago.

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