Subject: bug#73098: setopt float warning unexpected

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:38:43 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> > How about adding an option letting the user disable the type checking of
> > some options?
>
> Like what?  Would we accept, for example, a string where the type is
> 'symbol'?  Or any value where type is 'boolean'?

The new option would have as value a list of option names.  The user
could then add those options with incorrect type specs.  And for those
specified options Emacs would skip type checking entirely.

I _don't_ think melting types in either way would be a good idea.

Michael.