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: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, hmelman <at> gmail.com, 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:27:25 +0200

> The point is not to display unnecessary warnings.  The point is only
> to display warnings for custom variables that should not be set with
> setq because they have a :set form, or IOW, to display warnings for
> custom variables that should be set with customize-set-variables.

I checked most of our uses of :set and agree that they usually behave
well-mannered so using `setq' instead is practically always a bug
indeed.  But if the warnings are not displayed for byte-compiled code I
miss who their major addressee would be.

martin
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