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24.0.50; cannot customize default-frame-alist - it says value is nil but it is not

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 7087 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7087: 24.0.50;	cannot customize default-frame-alist - it
	says value is nil but it	is not
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:06:58 +0200

> In this Emacs 24 build, M-x customize-option default-frame-alist gives a
> Customize buffer that shows the value of the option as nil and says
> "this option has been changed outside the customize buffer. (mismatch)".
> However, C-h v default-frame-alist shows it has a non-nil value:
>
> ((foreground-color . "Black")
...
>  (icon-type)
>  nil
   ^^^
`default-frame-alist' has the customization type

	       (repeat (cons :format "%v"
			     (symbol :tag "Parameter")
			     (sexp :tag "Value"))))

so obviously this "nil" here will cause a mismatch.

>  (left-fringe . 0)
>  (right-fringe . 0)
>  (fringe . 0))
>
> Clearly there is a mismatch, not between the value and what the option
> spec should be, but between what Customize thinks the value is and what
> the value is in fact.  And even if the option value were nil, I don't
> think that would signify a mismatch.  Something is very wrong here.

Indeed.  You just have to find the culprit ;-)

martin

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