Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers

[Stefan Monnier]

>        AFAIR, set-variable by now obeys the :set function.  So everything
>        that is user-visible behaves consistent.

>     No, that was never implemented.  I do not know whether we still want
>     to implement it before the 21.4 release.  It does not seem very
>     difficult for setting default values, but setting buffer local values
>     still would not call the :set functions (because :set functions are
>     designed to set _default_ values and hence often can not be used to
>     set buffer local values).

> We could add defcustom properties :get-local and :set-local
> to handle local values.  This could be useful for running Custom
> buffers to set things locally, also.

Currently :set and :get are supposed to work buffer-locally if
custom-local-buffer is non-nil.


        Stefan