GNU bug report logs - #15809
24.3.50; wrong defcustom type for `suggest-key-bindings'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:32:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 15809 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#15809: 24.3.50; wrong defcustom type for `suggest-key-bindings'
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:00:28 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

>> Or to be more general, perhaps there should be a custom interval type?  Like
>>
>> (integer :minimum 1)
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Or just `natnum'?
>
> natnum sounds like it could be generally useful, yes.  We have plenty of
> customizable things that should never be negative.

Yeah, that's the most common numerical restriction (by far), and the few
variables that are numbers with other ranges can be done with a
defcustom predicate.

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