GNU bug report logs - #24229
25.1; Can't set EPA program

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nick Helm <nick <at> tenpoint.co.nz>

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 06:33:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 24268

Found in version 25.1

Done: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
Cc: nick <at> tenpoint.co.nz, 24229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24229: 25.1; Can't set EPA program
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:35:09 +0300
> From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: nick <at> tenpoint.co.nz,  24229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:08:03 +0200
> 
> > What I meant is that Customize does have a way of telling that a value
> > was changed using setq, so evidently there's some infrastructure for
> > that which you could use.  Am I missing something?
> 
> Do you mean custom-variable-state

Yes, I guess so.

> The function just compares a value with the default value.  In that
> case, we cannot determine whether a user explicitly sets the
> variable to "gpg2", or the default value "gpg2" is used.

You mean, using setq to set the value that is identical to the default
is somehow different from using the default unchanged?  Isn't that
confusing for users?




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