From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: is that value the original value or did I change it? Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:43:21 -0700 Organization: IHS Engineering, Electronic Systems Development Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CADE239.6483C2@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018028712 6238 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2002 17:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tXlv-0001cS-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:45:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tXlr-0006fu-00; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from dfw7-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.106]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tXk2-0006ZT-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:43:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by dfw7sosrv11.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmjhm11763 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:43:13 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:43:12 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:43:11 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 25 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018028590 30640844 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 i86pc) X-Accept-Language: en Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:423 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:423 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > here's the typical C-h v output, > bla-bla-bla value is t > > Documentation: > *If non-nil, offer to bla-bla-bla... > > OK, but wouldn't it be neat for it to tell what its original or > default value was, along with its current value? Not really, IMO. > That way one > wouldn't have to poke around to see if it was one's .emacs that gave > it the current value... M-! emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(describe-variable (quote bla-bla-bla))' > I'm talking about some default value checker, > not just asking the author to note the default value in the > documentation. -- Kevin Rodgers