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bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:32:53 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Aha, I guess it doesn't throw an error if `tetris' isn't loaded
> already, as it has no way of knowing the type yet. IOW, in emacs -Q,
> I need to say this to get an error:
>
> (progn
> (require 'tetris)
> (setopt tetris-buffer-width "hello"))
Yup.
> That's pretty good, but I wonder if we could do better. I expect that
> users will often set settings from libraries that aren't yet loaded.
> For example, how about warning upon loading the library if the
> variable is set to an incompatible value? Or something.
Hm... yes, that should certainly be possible. I guess the check would
go in... `custom-declare-variable'? Yeah, almost.
Now fixed in Emacs 29.
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bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/06