From: Glenn Morris Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:35:45 +0000 (-0400) Subject: * lisp/simple.el (set-variable): Tweak recent doc fix. X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~1537 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60ea900848ee03e1ccdba565220f589e0d8e72e9;p=emacs.git * lisp/simple.el (set-variable): Tweak recent doc fix. --- diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el index 24ce6c3402e..7eed279ed59 100644 --- a/lisp/simple.el +++ b/lisp/simple.el @@ -7315,8 +7315,9 @@ If VARIABLE has been defined with `defcustom', then the type information in the definition is used to check that VALUE is valid. Note that this function is at heart equivalent to the basic `set' function. -For a VARIABLE defined with `defcustom', it is not the same as using -\\[customize-variable]. +For a variable defined with `defcustom', it does not pay attention to +any :set property that the variable might have (if you want that, use +\\[customize-set-variable] instead). With a prefix argument, set VARIABLE to VALUE buffer-locally." (interactive