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27.0.50; edebug-print-{length,level} customization types

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33428: 27.0.50; edebug-print-{length,level} customization types
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:15:21 +0100

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:37:05 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:32:51 +0100
>> 
>> The doc strings of edebug-print-length and edebug-print-level imply that
>> nil is a valid value and indeed it is.  Yet trying to set the value to
>> nil via `M-x customize-option' fails with the error "This field should
>> contain an integer", because nil does not fit the customization type
>> :integer used in the definitions of these user options.  It's been like
>> this since they were changed from defvars to defcustoms more than 20
>> years ago (though "If non-nil" was added to the doc strings only a
>> little less than 10 years ago), so should the fix (below) go into
>> master, or is it on the order of a documentation fix and suitable for
>> the release branch?
>
> It's fine with me to put this on the release branch.
>
> Thanks.

Done in commit d667318a7f.

Steve Berman

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