From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Defaults for set-variable Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:35:22 +0100 Message-ID: <85mzkoqyn9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87y848px0j.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130851840 6542 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2005 13:30:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:30:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 01 14:30:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWwCE-0001tG-FP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:29:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWwCB-0005FK-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWvQk-00050a-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWvQh-0004yt-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:39:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWvQe-0004yY-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWvQe-00042K-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:39:52 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWvQd-0007aN-02; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:39:51 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 00D471C01C6C; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:35:22 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87y848px0j.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:15:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45237 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> What's a bit unfortunate is that the name `set-variable' is already >> taken (it really means `set-user-option'). `set-any-variable'? > > What about adding an interactive spec for `setq' which works for > any variable: > > M-x setq RET variable RET value RET That would be a mistake, since "q", the need for quoting, is a feature of the Lisp evaluator, not of the function. So the right function to give an interactive spec would be "set", not "setq". And I am uneasy about giving a low level primitive this sort of accessibility. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum