Then what about documenting it in the Emacs manual? Customization always
inserts the old value into editable fields in the customization buffer
(though, not as a Lisp expression that set-variable reads), so I think
this is a useful thing for users to know that set-variable can prov
> The change is ok, but please don't bother mentioning it in NEWS.
> It is below the threshold for mentioning there. NEWS is already
> so big as to be inconvenient for the users, so lowering that
> threshold would be unfortunate.
Then what about documenting it in the Emacs manual? Customization
The change is ok, but please don't bother mentioning it in NEWS.
It is below the threshold for mentioning there. NEWS is already
so big as to be inconvenient for the users, so lowering that
threshold would be unfortunate.
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I want to fix a bug in `set-variable' related to its default values.
It uses `read-variable' to read the name of a user variable
(a variable for which `user-variable-p' returns non-nil).
But there is one case where `set-variable' doesn't follow this
requirement: when a non-user variable name happen
