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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:56:04 +0300

> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:00:15 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> I just checked: on the current trunk, there are 331 defcustoms with a 
> :set.  Out of these, only 49 are set with setq, 33 only at one place, and 
> 16 more than once.  That would require changing 85 setq's into set's.

Please don't.  This is a tail wagging the dog.  We will not disallow
using 'setq' in a setter of a defcustom, it would be ridiculous if we
did.  I'd rather leave this minor issue unsolved than taking such
drastic actions.