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Re: Symbol’s value as variable is void: lock-file-name-transforms
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Symbol’s value as variable is void: lock-file-name-transforms |
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Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:39:51 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: tumashu@163.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:31:41 +0200
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> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
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> >> This is bug#49507, and we're discussing what to do about it.
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> > Why not remove the :initialize attribute from it? I thought this was
> > agreed upon.
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> I don't see why we should?
Because there's no reason to use it in this case.
> This problem can happen with any defcustom with :initialize in it, I
> think? (And we have a lot of those.) So we should fix the
> mechanism instead of altering the defcustom.
I don't disagree, but I think we shouldn't wait with fixing the
specific issue with lock-file-name-transforms until the more general
issue is fixed. That specific issue prevents people from building
Emacs, which is pretty serious.