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* Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable
@ 2005-06-19 11:14 Yoni Rabkin
  2005-06-20  3:50 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 47+ messages in thread
From: Yoni Rabkin @ 2005-06-19 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hello, I'm on CVS GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1

As far as I understand, the function set-variable, called
interactively will only tab-complete the names of variables defined as
"interactive".

This fact is not stated in the documentation string for set-variable.
This is only mentioned (or could be understood) from the documentation
itself. The documentation string reads as follows:

"Set VARIABLE to VALUE.  VALUE is a Lisp object.
When using this interactively, enter a Lisp object for VALUE.
If you want VALUE to be a string, you must surround it with doublequotes.
VALUE is used literally, not evaluated.

If VARIABLE has a `variable-interactive' property, that is used as if
it were the arg to `interactive' (which see) to interactively read VALUE.

If VARIABLE has been defined with `defcustom', then the type information
in the definition is used to check that VALUE is valid.

With a prefix argument, set VARIABLE to VALUE buffer-locally."

This caused the following confusion: A user logged onto the #emacs irc
channel and asked why the variable frame-title-format was not listed
in the tab-completion for M-x set-variable.

This means that we have at least one case of someone being confused be
this. Since the name of the function is "set-variable", the limited
scope is not immediately clear.
-- 
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
	Regards, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell

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2005-06-19 11:14 Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Yoni Rabkin
2005-06-20  3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-20  8:21   ` Yoni Rabkin
2005-06-20  9:07   ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-21  2:00     ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-26 23:23   ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-27 13:04     ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 15:44       ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 16:09         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 18:17           ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 18:45             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 19:30               ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 18:47               ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04  1:18                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-04 16:48                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 17:02                     ` David Kastrup
2005-07-05  1:42                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-05 16:12                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-07  1:54                         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-07 21:30                           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28  0:07             ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-28  8:32               ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 23:45                 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-29  9:14                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 23:57                     ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-30  8:16                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-30 16:55                         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 19:34                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-01 23:57                           ` Juri Linkov
2005-07-02  4:11                             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-28 18:47               ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29  2:32                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 20:42                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 18:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 18:49         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 21:38         ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28  4:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-28  8:33             ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28  4:17       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28  9:17         ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28  9:26           ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 16:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28 16:19             ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29  3:43               ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-29  9:18                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29  3:59           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 16:46     ` Richard M. Stallman

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