From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recent change to describe-variable
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:41:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v1ib8or.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BANLkTikqj9iMr8HKO9N6ivz0Co+FOkxkTQ@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:23:59 +0200 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
JB> 2011/4/4 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
>> So if `C-h v' AKA `describe-variable' is going to describe everything,
>> it should at least filter out self-quoting :symbols
JB> At your request I installed a change to exclude :keywords, but the
JB> lexbind-new merge overrode it. So if the current predicate is removed
JB> it would be good to filter out keywords again (though it makes sense
JB> to let pass keywords with a docstring, which my original patch
JB> didn't).
I'm OK with however you and the maintainers want to do it, fixing that
merge override. I do think it makes sense to have
`describe-emacs-variable' or `describe-documented-variable' (maybe
invoked with `C-u C-h v') to replicate that predicate, but that's a
different feature.
Thanks
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-04 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-03 0:15 Recent change to describe-variable Chong Yidong
2011-04-03 0:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-04 9:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-04 10:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 10:41 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-04-04 13:03 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-04 13:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-04 14:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 16:08 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-04 16:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04 17:05 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-04 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04 22:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 22:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
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