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-rw-r--r--lisp/cus-edit.el1
-rw-r--r--lisp/custom.el10
-rw-r--r--lisp/wid-edit.el1
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/cus-edit.el b/lisp/cus-edit.el
index 1f496af7d57..50dce5ee285 100644
--- a/lisp/cus-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/cus-edit.el
@@ -1075,6 +1075,7 @@ plain variables. This means that `setopt' will execute any
(when-let ((type (get variable 'custom-type)))
(unless (widget-apply (widget-convert type) :match value)
(user-error "Value `%S' does not match type %s" value type)))
+ (put variable 'custom-check-value (list value))
(funcall (or (get variable 'custom-set) #'set-default) variable value))
;;;###autoload
diff --git a/lisp/custom.el b/lisp/custom.el
index 2b7621229d9..a6e2ab351d4 100644
--- a/lisp/custom.el
+++ b/lisp/custom.el
@@ -90,6 +90,16 @@ The value is either the symbol's current value
(as obtained using the `:get' function), if any,
or the value in the symbol's `saved-value' property if any,
or (last of all) the value of EXP."
+ ;; If this value has been set with `setopt' (for instance in
+ ;; ~/.emacs), we didn't necessarily know the type of the user option
+ ;; then. So check now, and issue a warning if it's wrong.
+ (when-let ((value (get symbol 'custom-check-value))
+ (type (get symbol 'custom-type)))
+ (when (and (boundp symbol)
+ (eq (car value) (symbol-value symbol))
+ ;; Check that the type is correct.
+ (not (widget-apply (widget-convert type) :match (car value))))
+ (warn "Value `%S' for `%s' does not match type %s" value symbol type)))
(funcall (or (get symbol 'custom-set) #'set-default-toplevel-value)
symbol
(condition-case nil
diff --git a/lisp/wid-edit.el b/lisp/wid-edit.el
index 29b6e13bc60..53626182470 100644
--- a/lisp/wid-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/wid-edit.el
@@ -880,6 +880,7 @@ The child is converted, using the keyword arguments ARGS."
"Make a deep copy of WIDGET."
(widget-apply (copy-sequence widget) :copy))
+;;;###autoload
(defun widget-convert (type &rest args)
"Convert TYPE to a widget without inserting it in the buffer.
The optional ARGS are additional keyword arguments."