display-time-mail-file customization is confusing

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I've just spent quite a while trying to find out why mail indication (in display-time) wasn't working. It turned out to be because when I typed "~/mail/inbox" into the customization box for display-time-mail-file, this was set as a quoted literal, not a string. It's not obvious that you have to put quotes around the value you use; shouldn't there be an explicit customize type that lets you choose between nil and a string? ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux msrc-v-reubth.europe.corp.microsoft.com 2.4.3-12 #1 Fri Jun 8 15:05:56 EDT 2001 i686 unknown ./configure '--prefix=/home/rrt' '--with-mule' XEmacs 21.4.4 "Artificial Intelligence" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /home/rrt/xemacs-21.4.4 Installation prefix: /home/rrt Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wsign-compare Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for LDAP. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Load-Path Lisp Shadows: ---------------------- (/home/rrt/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/wl/utf7 /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/utf7 /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/semi/smime /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/smime /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/flim/md5 /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/md5 /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/flim/smtpmail /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/mail-lib/smtpmail /home/rrt/elisp/vm-mime /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/vm/vm-mime /home/rrt/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/apel/alist /home/rrt/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/alist) Installed XEmacs Packages: ------------------------- ((zenirc :version 1.11 :type regular) (xslt-process :version 1.05 :type regular) (xemacs-devel :version 1.38 :type single-file) (xemacs-base :version 1.55 :type regular) (w3 :version 1.2 :type regular) (vm :version 6.96 :type regular) (view-process :version 1.11 :type regular) (vc :version 1.28 :type regular) 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