User set org-hide-block-startup value overwritten by defvaralias

User set org-hide-block-startup value overwritten by defvaralias

[Ruiyang Wu]

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Hi there,

Thanks for maintaining this great piece of software.

I recently started to get the following warning from emacs when loading org mode:
Warning (defvaralias): Overwriting value of ‘org-hide-block-startup’ by aliasing to ‘org-cycle-hide-block-startup’

I have this in my init file:
(setq org-hide-block-startup t)

I believe the value t is not preserved because in org.el, it first loads org-cycle.el which assigns nil to org-cycle-hide-block-startup, and then executes (defvaralias 'org-hide-block-startup 'org-cycle-hide-block-startup) so the value of org-hide-block-startup is overwritten to nil.

Some quick search on the internet seems to suggest that defvaralias should be called first before giving org-cycle-hide-block-startup its default value. (Cf. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5950)

Thanks in advance for the help.


Best,
Ruiyang


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Re: User set org-hide-block-startup value overwritten by defvaralias

[Ihor Radchenko]

Ruiyang Wu <ywwry66@gmail.com> writes:

> I recently started to get the following warning from emacs when loading org mode:
> Warning (defvaralias): Overwriting value of ‘org-hide-block-startup’ by aliasing to ‘org-cycle-hide-block-startup’
>
> I have this in my init file:
> (setq org-hide-block-startup t)
>
> I believe the value t is not preserved because in org.el, it first loads org-cycle.el which assigns nil to org-cycle-hide-block-startup, and then executes (defvaralias 'org-hide-block-startup 'org-cycle-hide-block-startup) so the value of org-hide-block-startup is overwritten to nil.
>
> Some quick search on the internet seems to suggest that defvaralias should be called first before giving org-cycle-hide-block-startup its default value. (Cf. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5950)

Thanks for reporting and for hunting down the cause!
Fixed, on bugfix.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=bfe253f7e

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