From: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: 38173@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org
Subject: bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:14:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnhxyjxp.8.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
^H v w3m-command
w3m-command is a variable defined in ‘w3m.el’.
Its value is "/usr/bin/w3m"
Original value was nil
User thinks:
Hmmm, it was changed I see.
Where did the change happen?
Did it get changed in w3m.el? But that's where it was first defined. So
it wouldn't have happened there.
He looks in .emacs . Wait, he doesn't even have a .emacs.
He gives up.
So you only tell him half the story.
Either record at least the last place a variable was changed.
Or don't tell him it was changed.
emacs-version "26.3" .
Yes, if he changed in by hand in his *scratch* buffer etc., even say that too.
next reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 1:14 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2019-11-12 2:28 ` bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-11-12 2:45 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-12 23:10 ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-12 23:28 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-13 9:19 ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-13 15:06 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-13 22:56 ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-14 6:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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