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24.5; `customized-changed-options`

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Message #18 received at 23085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 23085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#23085: 24.5; `customized-changed-options`
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:26:37 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 15:07:54 +0100
> Cc: 23085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>     (customize-changed-options-previous-release): Prev release is 21.1.
>     (customize-changed-options): Doc fix.
>     (customize-changed): New alias.
> 
> And the doc string for customize-changed-options was changed to reflect
> what it does, i.e., what you'd expect `customize-changed' to do.
> 
> This is kinda backwards, so I've now flipped this, and made
> `customize-changed-options' an obsolete alias.

I'm not sure this change is for the better: no one said that "options"
should be interpreted narrowly as referring only to variables; and
"customize-changed" is simply bad English and doesn't help
understanding what it is about.  So I think Richard was right with
that change.

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