bug#12582: 24.1.50; customize settings not persisting across sessions + CHANGED outside Customize flag issue

[Hilary J Holz]

Ooo… Thanks, your example is very helpful.

Is there a way to have the init process source shell-switcher from github rather
than a repo? Downloading it manually isn't scalable :(

On Oct 5, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:

> Hilary J Holz wrote:
> 
>> I would have done that if the problem had been local to the package.
>> However, there remains the issue with CHANGED outside Customize.
> 
> The problem is local to the package if it only occurs with variables
> from that package. Can you demonstrate this problem with any standard
> Emacs custom option?
> 
> It's trivial to make such a bug occur. Eg:
> 
> (defvar shell-switcher-new-shell-function 57)
> 
> (defcustom shell-switcher-new-shell-function 'shell-switcher-make-eshell
>  "..."
>  :group 'shell-switcher)
> 
> Evaluating that will give a "CHANGED outside Customize." message.
> 
> OK, that's an artificial example, but similar things can easily happen
> for example with packages split into multiple source files that
> accidentally define variables more than once. It's a bug in the package,
> not in Custom.
> 

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