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 15:10:15 +0200

Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]> writes:

> Do you have an example of a variable with a :set for which it isn't
> problematic to use setq, and an example for which it is?

Do you mean after loading/starting the package?  I guess most of them
are problematic after loading, like (at random) vcursor-key-bindings.

Most variable that's autoloaded and has a :set can probably be set
safely with setq (before loading the .el file).

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