From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: warn that you set a variable a second time in .emacs Date: 17 Jan 2003 11:10:28 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765sowjx7.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042778465 29962 80.91.224.249 (17 Jan 2003 04:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZOJU-0007n4-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZOKj-0005bw-00 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZOKI-0005Eg-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZOK7-0004jd-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZOK4-0004Xg-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:41:40 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZOIh-0007lu-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:40:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZODB-0007YU-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:34:33 +0100 Original-Path: jidanni.org!news Original-Lines: 6 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4228 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4228 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. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780