GNU bug report logs - #54399
27.2; Problems with (let ((custom-variable ...)) (autoload-function ...))

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ignacio Casso <ignaciocasso <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 27.2

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 54399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: Ignacio Casso <ignaciocasso <at> hotmail.com>, 54399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54399: 27.2; Problems with (let ((custom-variable ...))
 (autoload-function ...))
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:32:28 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Hmm - I don't know much about the background, but wasn't
> `set-default-toplevel-value' invented to make just that work?  See
> commit
>
> a104f656c8 Make defvar affect the default binding outside of any let.
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> Fri Aug 2 17:16:33 2013 -0400

Ah, newfangled code.  😀

> AFAIU this bug report is a request to (1) correct some docstrings and
> (2) use `set-default-toplevel-value' instead of `set-default' at more
> places in custom.el to assign values, where appropriate.

Right.

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