GNU bug report logs - #21695
25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:51:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hmelman <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:03:48 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: hmelman <at> gmail.com, 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:23:49 -0400
> 
>   > How would we know which variables to look at?
> 
> We would determine which variables could actually have a problem.
> 
> 1. Get the list of variables that use :set.
> 
> 2. For each of those variables, see if it is used in any source file
> other than the one that contains the defcustom.  A script can do this.

"Any source file" should include all the Lisp files installed on the
user's machine, right?  So such a script would need to be run every
startup (because the installed files can change)?

Perhaps it would be better to walk the obarray instead?
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