Subject: Re: bug#52554: 28.0.90; mm-inline-media-tests customization breaks .emacs reading

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:01:01 +0100

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

> mm-inline-media-tests contains lambda's, and itʼs byte-compiled, so
> when you customize its value, byte-code is saved in your .emacs. One
> of its components looks like this:
>
>      ("text/x-vcard" mm-inline-text-vcard
>       #[257 "\300\301!\206	%0\302\303!\207"
>             [featurep vcard locate-library "vcard"]
>             3 "
>
>      (fn HANDLE)"])

I see that you've fixed the actual bug in a later patch, but I just
wanted to ask -- should that variable be a user option at all?  Long
list variables are seldom useful as user options.  Instead users should
prepend choices with `push' or something.

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