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

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, hmelman <at> gmail.com,
 larsi <at> gnus.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: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:14:40 +0000

>> Let's see what others think about this aspect.
>
> A naive question probably: Why do we want to do "that" at run time? 
> Can't we make the byte compiler detect such occurrences?
>

Because init files are typically not bytecompiled, and because that would 
not catch interactive uses with e.g. M-:.
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