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changeset 56235:ba5561d20501
(Variable Definitions): Note about doc strings and :set.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:17:34 +0000 |
| parents | b4cff9b59252 |
| children | 69f225b794b1 |
| files | lispref/customize.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/customize.texi Thu Jun 24 20:16:02 2004 +0000 +++ b/lispref/customize.texi Thu Jun 24 20:17:34 2004 +0000 @@ -194,6 +194,11 @@ @var{default} because they are not expanded when editing the value, causing list values to appear to have the wrong structure. +If you specify the @code{:set} option, to make the variable take other +special actions when set through the customization buffer, the +variable's documentation string should tell the user specifically how +to do the same job in hand-written Lisp code. + When you evaluate a @code{defcustom} form with @kbd{C-M-x} in Emacs Lisp mode (@code{eval-defun}), a special feature of @code{eval-defun} arranges to set the variable unconditionally, without testing whether