From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:45:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87br5pri6l.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b05062801325ccc8fd3@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:32:43 +0200")
> IMO, the user does M-x set-variable because he already knows the
> variable he wants to set (and it's even likely he read the doc and
> knows whether it is obsolete or not, though I'm willing to accept
> there are users who simply set a variable because they read about it
> in an old doc somewhere) and completion is just a help to do less
> typing. So in my view, `set-variable' should not filter out any user
> variable, whether it is an obsolete variable or an obsolete
> alias. I certainly would be very pissed if I wanted to set
> `messages-buffer-max-lines' and had to type it fully because
> `set-variable' had decided that `message-log-max' was the way to go.
`messages-buffer-max-lines' is not an obsolete alias for
`message-log-max'. Rather it's the other way round: `message-log-max'
is an obsolete variable (thought it is not marked as such yet), but
its alias `messages-buffer-max-lines' is not obsolete (it was added
recently as a better name instead of `message-log-max'). But anyway
I see your point. I agree that filtering is not very necessary, and
think that it would be sufficient to display a warning for obsolete
variables and obsolete aliases after selecting the variable but before
setting its value.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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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