* warn that you set a variable a second time in .emacs
@ 2003-01-17 3:10 Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-01-17 3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
It is easy to setq a variable at the top of your .emacs file, and the
do it again at the bottom. Perhaps emacs could warn us at startup
about this. Of course fancy users could turn this warning off as it
is often quite a legitimate thing to do this.
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* Re: warn that you set a variable a second time in .emacs
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@ 2003-01-17 16:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-01-17 23:42 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2003-01-17 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> It is easy to setq a variable at the top of your .emacs file, and the
> do it again at the bottom. Perhaps emacs could warn us at startup
> about this. Of course fancy users could turn this warning off as it
> is often quite a legitimate thing to do this.
Indeed it is. What problem would this feature solve?
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* Re: warn that you set a variable a second time in .emacs
2003-01-17 16:50 ` warn that you set a variable a second time in .emacs Kevin Rodgers
@ 2003-01-17 23:42 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-01-17 23:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "K" == Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:
K> Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> It is easy to setq a variable at the top of your .emacs file, and the
>> do it again at the bottom. Perhaps emacs could warn us at startup
>> about this. Of course fancy users could turn this warning off as it
>> is often quite a legitimate thing to do this.
K> Indeed it is. What problem would this feature solve?
well, always adding a setq to the bottom of .emacs will get the effect
the user wanted, but then when he is scratching his head why the same
setq in 2 or three other places in his .emacs has no effect when
adjusted, he wouldn't go firing off a bug report. Erm, uh, let's change
the subject. Say, how about we warn when users repeat options: emacs
-q -q ... ok, never mind. over and out.
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