From: Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>
To: 59248@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59248: 29.0.50; apropos lists keywords as if they were variables
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:56:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfimpzdi.fsf@thb.lt> (raw)
On a very recent (about yesterday) Emacs from HEAD, apropos lists
interned keywords as undocumented variables. Eg, the following
invocation:
M-x apropos RET distant-foreground RET
displays the following output:
> Type RET on a type label to view its full documentation.
>
> :distant-foreground
> Variable: (not documented)
> Value: :distant-foreground
This is technically correct --- keywords are variable-ish --- but quite
useless. At best, keywords just add noise to `apropos` output. At
worst, they may be misleading, since an user may assume they can somehow
control something by setq'ing a keyword.
Regards,
Thibault
next reply other threads:[~2022-11-13 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-13 16:56 Thibault Polge [this message]
2022-11-13 18:09 ` bug#59248: 29.0.50; apropos lists keywords as if they were variables Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 18:30 ` Thibault Polge
2022-11-13 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-14 5:21 ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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