From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 35628@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35628: Keep track of what file sets variables... through init-file processing
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 07:00:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhnxjjnq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736lp8nad.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Wed, 08 May 2019 14:37:14 +0800")
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積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> C-h v runs the command describe-variable.
>
> Its output looks like
>
> ............. is a variable defined in ‘.......el’.
> Its value is t
> Original value was nil
> Try this: put (setq xxxx 2222) in ~/.emacs; restart emacs, and do
> describe-variable xxxx.
>
> You might say "Well we only remember one filename. If we remember
> .emacs, then we will forget the original file."
Only defvar, defcustom, or defconst record a variable definition
filename; setq records nothing (technically, it doesn't "define" a
variable, just changes it). Maybe something could be hacked with
add-variable-watcher (not sure if it's a good idea though).
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2019-05-08 6:37 bug#35628: Keep track of what file sets variables... through init-file processing 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-05-08 11:00 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
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