must-match and set-variable (was: Re: defcustom :type (file :must-match t))

[Stuart D. Herring]

Luc wrote:
>                                          If you insist, you can enter
> such a name anyway, with C-M-c (but that will usually be a bad idea).

Hey, this is a neat answer to the recent discussion about set-variable --
it works just fine to set any variable by overriding the user-variable-p
check with C-M-c.  Perhaps add to set-variable's docs (or in the Emacs
Lisp manual or so) that that override may be useful to Lisp programmers?

Davis Herring

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