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#15179: describe-variable vs. aliases Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:47:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7a3ri8t.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87k3jbgs2m.fsf@jidanni.org> <87k197rj0x.fsf@gnus.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="249564"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 15179@debbugs.gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 14 07:48:10 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 1iJtDG-0012nf-Ma for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:48:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44678 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtDF-0006ZY-4l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtD8-0006Ws-TF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtD7-0001hA-R8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtD7-0001h4-OK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtD7-0004GX-M1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:48:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15179 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 15179-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15179.157103205116353 (code B ref 15179); Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15179) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Oct 2019 05:47:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37564 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtCa-0004Fe-UX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.231.51] (port=49446 helo=quimby.gnus.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtCT-0004BB-7y for 15179@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iJtCN-00029Q-6z; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:47:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87k197rj0x.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:30:22 +0200") 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:169195 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > But is that information available? We have the chain going the other > way in Findirect_variable... I guess we could loop over obarray and run > that function on all the symbols and create a reverse map? > > Is there an easier way? Well, looping over obarray is easy and fast enough, I guess, so I just added that to Emacs 27. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no