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

From: Howard Melman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:07:07 -0400

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

> There are a few customization options that are not really variables
> and need to be set with `customize-set-variable'.

> * indicate the few customization options
>    which are not really variables.

Searching emacs 27.2 elisp source I find about 400 hits for :set.

Searching my installed packages I find about 30 more.

That seems like more than a few.

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Howard