Custom erases comment when default value restored.

[Jonathan LF King]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
 of 2002-06-19 on diashi.clas.ufl.edu
configured using `configure  --prefix=/opt/emacs_21.2 --without-gcc 
--mandir=/opt/emacs_21.2/share/man --infodir=/opt/emacs_21.2/share/info 
--localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=yes --with-tiff'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

 /-------------------------------------------------------------\
Dear Emacs
  
  Suppose I have customized a variable.  The STATE button gives me
the option to Erase the customization.

Unfortunately, this ALSO erases the comment that I just wrote,
explaining (to me) why I don't want to touch this variable and want
its default value.  

  So perhaps this isn't a bug report, but rather a feature request.
Could you put-in *two* erasures under the STATE button?  Maybe

        Erase customization value
        Erase customization value and comment

I suppose one also might want just

        Erase customization comment

NOTE: Sometimes I don't actually want to erase the customization;
I just want to know what the default value is.  Within Custom, is
there a fast way to see the dft value WITHOUT erasing the current
value?
        Sincerely,   -Prof.  Jonathan King
 \_____________________________________________________________/




Recent input:
C-x : C-x C-x . C-x C-x . C-x C-x SPC ? <return> <return> 
C-k C-o <return> C-p s i g b <return> C-c C-c C-g C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-f 
C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-k C-y C-a C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-f C-f C-f C-f C-y 
C-k C-c C-c y o M-b C-k t e m p <return> s p n SPC 
C-v C-v C-v C-v M-. M-, p s C-x m C-g C-g <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re
port-emacs-bug>

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-- 
Prof. Jonathan LF King    Mathematics dept, Univ. of Florida
<squash@math.ufl.edu>,    <http://www.math.ufl.edu/~squash/>