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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Message #173 received at 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: gregory <at> heytings.org
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, hmelman <at> gmail.com, 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21695: 25.0.50;
 Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to
 `customize-set-variable'? Really?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:21:03 +0300

> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:11:52 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, hmelman <at> gmail.com, 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
> 
> The difference is that while Emacs is being built, especially
> bootstrapped, calls to Lisp code that isn't preloaded by autoload.el
> could fail.  So such calls need to be careful not to call a symbol if
> the call could fail, or at least use internal_condition_case*
> functions to protect themselves against failure.

Basically, you should use safe_call and its ilk.
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