Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable

[Richard M. Stallman]

    `M-x customize-face RET diary-face' brings uo a customization buffer
    for the face `diary' instead of for the typed alias `diary-face'.
    _Assuming_, of course, that diary is loaded.  If not, customize-face
    will not recognize diary, nor diary-face.  I proposed doing something
    similar for customize-variable.

I think it is right to use the "real" name rather than the alias in
the customization buffer, for variables as well as for faces.
So please do make that change in customize-variable.

    As set-variable is not bringing any buffer, selecting X or ALIAS-OF-X
    to set should be similar.

That is true; this issue doesn't arise for set-variable, only for
Custom buffers.