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Re: Symbol’s value as variable is void: lock-file-name-transforms
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Symbol’s value as variable is void: lock-file-name-transforms |
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Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:35:43 -0400 |
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Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-07-16 13:31:41] wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> This is bug#49507, and we're discussing what to do about it.
>> Why not remove the :initialize attribute from it? I thought this was
>> agreed upon.
> I don't see why we should? This problem can happen with any defcustom
> with :initialize in it, I think? (And we have a lot of those.) So we
> should fix the mechanism instead of altering the defcustom.
I suspect that fixing the mechanism so that it can be used "reliably"
for any variable might prove very difficult. So I think a better use of
our time is to keep using that feature as sparingly as possible.
[ Where "that feature" is `custom-initialize-delay` and not
`:initialize`. ]
Stefan