Subject: Re: bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really?

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:07:29 +0200

Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]> writes:

> * src/eval.c (Fsetq): Display warning when a custom variable with a :set
> property is set with setq.

It's usually fine to set user options that have a :set form with setq --
if you do it before the .el file it belongs in is loaded.  Finding a
variable it's problematic to use setq on in .emacs took some digging
(when I added the example in the manual).

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