GNU bug report logs - #33428
27.0.50; edebug-print-{length,level} customization types

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Subject: bug#33428: closed (Re: bug#33428: 27.0.50; edebug-print-{length,level}
 customization types)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:18:02 +0000
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Your bug report

#33428: 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-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33428: 27.0.50;
 edebug-print-{length,level} customization types
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:16:59 +0100
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:15:21 +0100 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> wrote:

> 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

Oops, and closing the bug.

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; edebug-print-{length,level} customization types
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?

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el
index 15f68a62ac..b50b0383da 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el
@@ -192,11 +192,11 @@ edebug-continue-kbd-macro
 
 (defcustom edebug-print-length 50
   "If non-nil, default value of `print-length' for printing results in Edebug."
-  :type 'integer
+  :type '(choice integer (const nil))
   :group 'edebug)
 (defcustom edebug-print-level 50
   "If non-nil, default value of `print-level' for printing results in Edebug."
-  :type 'integer
+  :type '(choice integer (const nil))
   :group 'edebug)
 (defcustom edebug-print-circle t
   "If non-nil, default value of `print-circle' for printing results in Edebug."


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 13, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
 of 2018-11-18 built on rosalinde
Repository revision: 5d140800398287c20230dda79162a7c40016d88e
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12001000
System Description: 8.3



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