Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> >> > 1.  Setting the variable with set-variable would not have any effect
> >> >     other than maybe to confuse Emacs internals or the user.  This is
> >> 
> >> Sounds like a bug: if it works via customize-variable, there's not good
> >> reason why it can't work with set-variable.
> 
> > There are reasons.  Customize can specify actions to do whenever a
> > variable is set (there are a few customizable variables that switch on
> > minor modes, for example).
> 
> That's what he said, basically and I replied that it's a bug in
> set-variable.  For such vars, set-variable should either put a big
> warning or do the same as customize-variable (i.e. call the setter
> function).

If set-variable does not tend to consult the "customize" data
structures in other circumstances, it would be unexpected if it did
in this case.  I do seem to remember, though, that set-variable
declined setting a variable to values opposed to any possibly
customize declaration.  So perhaps making set-variable do pretty much
the "set for current session" operation procedure of customize would
be sensible behavior.

That does not imply that the current behavior would be a bug, simply
that it might make sense to change it (along with its documentation).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum