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Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:51:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan <address@hidden> writes:
>> - You need to load `cus-edit.el' to see this variable (not a
>> great problem, but it would be good to have it autoloaded).
>
> Most variables are only visible once the corresponding package is loaded.
> That's normal.
>
>> What about 1) having click-a-name-to-toggle-its-display-type, as I just
>> mentioned, and 2) display a message in the echo area when you do this,
>> saying that you can use `custom-unlispify-tag-names' to set the custom
>> display type globally. Finding this (oddly named) option would then be
>> fairly easy and common.
>
> The problem is that custom's "variables" aren't the same as
> Elisp variables. They look very much alike, and they usually are exactly
> the same, but that's not always the case.
> The :get, :set, and :init thingies allow you to define a custom setting
> "foo-bar" which controls "toto" rather than the variable "foo-bar".
AFAIR, set-variable by now obeys the :set function. So everything
that is user-visible behaves consistent.
`setq' OTOH is "low-level". Perhaps we should warn people in the
introduction to writing .emacs that setq or setq-default might not do
the trick for user-settable variables.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, (continued)
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Per Abrahamsen, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/07
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/03