From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
Subject: Re: warn that you set a variable a second time in .emacs
Date: 18 Jan 2003 07:42:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0lzxs1d.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E283447.8000902@ihs.com
>>>>> "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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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 [this message]
2003-01-17 3:10 Dan Jacobson
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