From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: dired-aux.el better nroff suggestion Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 19:05:41 -0700 Message-ID: <002b01c8ad8b$5b9240b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <87bq3noq4f.fsf@gmx.de> <87hcde25vj.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209866798 5648 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2008 02:06:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 02:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: , Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 04 04:07:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JsTd9-0001nq-Tl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 04:07:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsTcS-0003qE-GJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 22:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsTbz-0003eh-RI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 22:05:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsTby-0003e9-JR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 22:05:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43054 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsTby-0003dt-Ez for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 22:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsTbx-0006Lb-Tn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 22:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m4425r0V031982; Sat, 3 May 2008 21:05:54 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m4425q8H018675; Sat, 3 May 2008 20:05:52 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3664807021209866729; Sat, 03 May 2008 19:05:29 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.81.43) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 03 May 2008 19:05:29 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87hcde25vj.fsf@jidanni.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AcitiplavVAriumjQcWVPn0S2hREOwAAEFMA X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17919 Archived-At: > So this is a different bug: with M-x one can > describe-variable but cannot > set-variable for that same variable. "Not determined" or not. `set-variable' is only for user options. The variable in question is probably not a user option. ,----[ C-h f set-variable RET ] | set-variable is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple+.el'. | | (set-variable VAR VAL &optional MAKE-LOCAL) | | Set VARIABLE to VALUE. VALUE is a Lisp object. | When using this interactively, enter a Lisp object for VALUE. | If you want VALUE to be a string, you must surround it with doublequotes. | VALUE is used literally, not evaluated. | | If VARIABLE has a `variable-interactive' property, that is used as if | it were the arg to `interactive' (which see) to interactively read VALUE. | | If VARIABLE has been defined with `defcustom', then the type information | in the definition is used to check that VALUE is valid. | | With a prefix argument, set VARIABLE to VALUE buffer-locally. | `----