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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hmelman <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#21695: 25.0.50;
 Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to
 `customize-set-variable'? Really?
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 20:43:27 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: hmelman <at> gmail.com, 21695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:43:05 -0400
> 
> Here's a way: after the init files finish, look at the value of the
> variable, and if it does not equal the default, and this value was not
> properly installed with the :set method, invoke that variable's :set
> method.

How would we know which variables to look at?
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