GNU bug report logs - #4562
23.1; Customize State button problems

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Message #20 received at 4562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 4562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#4562: 23.1; Customize State button problems
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:57:46 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> So what you have here is simply a bug where Emacs's startup code
> modifies default-frame-alist without telling Customize about it.
> IIUC it's not easy to fix it, because some of those changes are things
> which shoujldn't be saved in the Custom version of default-frame-alist
> (they are dynamically set at startup depending on your window-system
> and/or command-line args).  I guess basically what it means is that
> default-frame-alist shouldn't be a defcustom becaude we don't know how
> to let Custom handle it correctly.

So should we just change `default-frame-alist' to a `defvar'?

I can't even find the custom definition of this variable.

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