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bug#12467: 24.1; customization initialization confusing
From: |
Robert Horn |
Subject: |
bug#12467: 24.1; customization initialization confusing |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:36:52 -0400 |
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Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Robert Horn wrote:
>
>
>> - If you start emacs and immediately go into options->config for
>> org-habit, the org-habit-show-today-all will indicate that it has
>> been set outside of the customization system when the customized
>> value is "t". When the customized value is "nil" there is no
>> indicated problem.
>
> Sounds like a bug. However, there is no "org-habit-show-today-all"
> variable in the Emacs trunk so I cannot test this. I cannot reproduce
> this when customizing eg
> org-export-html-table-use-header-tags-for-first-column.
>
Sorry, it's org-habit-show-all-today.
>> But a naive user would expect that starting the customization process
>> for the group would also cause processing of the startup
>> customization.
>
> I don't really know what this means.
As you say, customization only applies when relevant. I would expect
that customizing would make it relevant, just like setting a buffer into
org-mode makes it relevant. But the bug might be something else
entirely.
R Horn
rjhorn@alum.mit.edu