Unless there are objections, I will install the folowing patch to
cus-edit.el. Except for the one minor change I discussed with
Lennart, it is identical to the one I proposed before.
===File ~/cus-edit.el-diff==
*** cus-edit.el 14 Feb 2005 15:38:32 -0600
Lennart Borgman wrote:
But maybe "newer Emacs version" could be more specific so it would be
more safe for "ageing"?
I checked that the statement is already valid in Emacs 20.7. Maybe
Per was just referring to original versions of Custom, that were not
included with Emacs. I guess we coul
- Original Message -
From: "Luc Teirlinck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --- 120,131
>
> ;; 6. rogue
>
> ! ;;There is no standard value. This means that the variable was
> ! ;;not defined with defcustom. In newer Emacs versions, you can
> ! ;;not create a Custom buffer for su
if desired:
===File ~/cus-edit.el-diff======
*** cus-edit.el 14 Feb 2005 15:38:32 -0600 1.212
--- cus-edit.el 18 Feb 2005 19:28:46 -0600
***
*** 35,41
;; that the user will run with M-x, and `Custom-' for interactive commands.
;; Th
Customize was designed to work on all variables, declared with
customize or not. Pretty much needed back when nothing was declared
with customize. Apparently someone decided to remove that feature.
Now that all the variables useful for beginners to customize have
Custom definitions,
Maybe the following is better. The state does occur, there are plenty
of variables without defcustom, it just does normally not occur in a
Custom buffer (unless you do something special):
;;There is no standard value. This means that the variable was
;;not defined with defcustom. In new
nstall this
in cus-edit.el if it looks OK:
;; 6. rogue
;;There is no standard value. This means that the variable was
;;not defined with defcustom. In newer Emacs versions, this state
;;does not occur in normal usage. You can not create a Custom
;;buffer for such variables us
Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Or does it mean that there is no defcustom?
Yes.
> I have the impression
> that Custom completely _ignores_ variables without defcustom. To try
> I put:
>
> '(aha "oho")
>
> in my `custom-set-variables' form and Custom seems to completely ignore it
In cus-edit.el we see:
;; 6. rogue
;;There are no standard value.
There are two problems with this. The lesser of the two is that this
does not appear to be grammatically correct.
The second, less trivial one is that the situation, as described,
appears to be impossible:
;; 4. The
