bug#12467: 24.1; customization initialization confusing

[Robert Horn]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Robert Horn wrote:
>
>
>>   - If you start emacs and immediately go into options->config for
>>   org-habit, the org-habit-show-today-all will indicate that it has
>>   been set outside of the customization system when the customized
>>   value is "t". When the customized value is "nil" there is no
>>   indicated problem.
>
> Sounds like a bug. However, there is no "org-habit-show-today-all"
> variable in the Emacs trunk so I cannot test this. I cannot reproduce
> this when customizing eg
> org-export-html-table-use-header-tags-for-first-column.
>

Sorry, it's org-habit-show-all-today.

>> But a naive user would expect that starting the customization process
>> for the group would also cause processing of the startup
>> customization.
>
> I don't really know what this means.

As you say, customization only applies when relevant.  I would expect
that customizing would make it relevant, just like setting a buffer into
org-mode makes it relevant.  But the bug might be something else
entirely.

R Horn
rjhorn@alum.mit.edu