Subject: bug#33566: closed (Re: bug#33566: [PATCH] RE: bug#33566: 26; `group' :type for defcustom)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 08:05:03 +0000

Your bug report

#33566: 26; `group' :type for defcustom

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#33566: [PATCH] RE: bug#33566: 26; `group' :type for defcustom
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:04:19 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 15:35:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> 
> ping.  Could someone please consider committing
> this patch.  Thx.

Sorry for the delay.  Installed on the emacs-26 branch.

Subject: 26; `group' :type for defcustom
From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 12:44:56 -0800 (PST)
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

It seems like defcustom composite :type `group' does not work.

See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/46357/105.

emacs -Q

(defcustom foo '(1 2 3)
  "..."
  :type '(group integer integer integer)
  :group 'emacs)

M-x customize-option foo

Shows this message in *Messages*:

custom-variable-value-create: Bad format

And buffer *Customize Option: Foo* is not complete.  I see only this:

------------8<----------------

Custom settings cannot be saved; maybe you started Emacs with '-q'.
For help using this buffer, see Easy Customization in the Emacs manual.

                                          Search 

Operate on all settings in this buffer:
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The doc says that :type `group' should be very similar to :type `list',
but without tags.

See also this bug:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-06/msg00067.html

In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2018-05-30
Repository revision: 07f8f9bc5a51f5aa94eb099f3e15fbe0c20ea1ea
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.16299
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''