GNU bug report logs - #8256
widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:40:38 +0100

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>   emacs -Q
>>   Paste to *scratch* this code:
>
>>       (defcustom my-dir nil
>>           "doc"
>>          :type 'directory)
>
>>   Eval it.
>>   M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
>
> Problem here: nil is not a directory, so the above defcustom is not
> valid.  Oddly enough Customize does not signal the error, and instead
> gets into a weird state.  Once you set my-dir to a string, things work
> much better.

What should signal that it the defcustom is not valid? And when?
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