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 14:15:36 +0200

Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hmm...  Unless I'm missing something, the case you mention (setq'ing a
> variable before the .el file is loaded) will not issue a warning.  The
> example I used is (setq gdb-many-windows t).

That's not an autoloaded variable (well, minor mode), so Emacs doesn't
know that it has a :set when .emacs is loaded.

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