From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:27:59 +0100 Message-ID: <871rubotu8.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87pnhxyjxp.8.fsf@jidanni.org> <878solyfr2.8.fsf@jidanni.org> <9a2ece93c5474cdd68e6f7253408dba8@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <87pnhwsmii.5.fsf@jidanni.org> <69ffb0e3-4616-4147-4888-cc2889694bb5@orcon.net.nz> <87v9rnx1bi.5.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="16793"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka , =?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson , 38173@debbugs.gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 14 07:29:26 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8dA-0004Bv-EH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:29:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53766 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8d9-00006k-8N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8cq-00006X-Fg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:29:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8co-0003Zi-Ih for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8co-0003ZK-BA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8co-0007TJ-3Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:29:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:29:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38173 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38173-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38173.157371289528647 (code B ref 38173); Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:29:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38173) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Nov 2019 06:28:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60774 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8c2-0007Rt-4Z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:50234) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8bx-0007RY-6J for 38173@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:28:10 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iV8bo-00014E-Mv; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:28:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Phil Sainty's message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:56:39 +1300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:171544 Archived-At: Phil Sainty writes: > It would, I think, be *dramatically* (perhaps prohibitively) more > expensive to perform that kind of checking. Yes, I think it's unrealistic (to put it mildly) to add something like this to Emacs, so I'm closing this bug report. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no