From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Live System User Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Local elisp library files and variable corruption Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:37:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87fus10ztq.fsf@aol.com> References: <87por61khy.fsf@aol.com> <83mvma1jpc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466887223 29090 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2016 20:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 20:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 25 22:40:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bGuNC-0001T0-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 22:40:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGuNB-0001Ew-Px for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGuLT-0000PW-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGuLQ-00053h-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from omr-m014e.mx.aol.com ([204.29.186.13]:50240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGuLQ-00053P-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout-mbe01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-mbe01.mx.aol.com [172.26.254.173]) by omr-m014e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id C987A3800088; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:38:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-50-163-96-131.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [50.163.96.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-mbe01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id 854FA3800008A; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:38:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83mvma1jpc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 24 Jun 2016 22:16:15 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.94 (gnu/linux) x-aol-global-disposition: G DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mx.aol.com; s=20150623; t=1466887102; bh=GsYEK8iehufZa9VRhkmMANPaGJq1w25n7rp3vHqVcFE=; h=From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=NacDsLP0/9EAg4As+pm4iJ7uy2CTDLfkUtcxwhcOXiEn+YL3vxLr1hOUgB6QZN4ei O3WIdnqIxn1IFCJherwK23lVooZZaGAC6CdIpqHqzVkuBwRXqTZuT8ziGxGzC2PLOM fA7VLi8umUxfbcHJ1L88ElBATNOYlAWqiJGGlamw= x-aol-sid: 3039ac1afead576eebbe1362 X-AOL-IP: 50.163.96.131 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 204.29.186.13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204760 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Live System User >> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:59:05 -0400 >>=20 >> 3. M-x describe-variable RET after-init-hook >>=20 >>=20 >> The variable `after-init-hook' then appears to be corrupted: >>=20 >> after-init-hook is a variable defined in =E2=80=98startup.el=E2=80=99. >> Its value is (#[0 "\305\211\235\203\306\"\301\307!\210\210 \205(\n\205= =0B\205 \310 ?\311 \210\312\211)\207" >> [command-line-args desktop-save-mode desktop-restore-frames initial= -window-system inhibit-startup-screen "--no-desktop" delete 0 daemonp deskt= op-read t] >> 4] >> x-wm-set-size-hint) > > Why do you say this is corrupted? It looks like bytecode to me. Aha! Another poster, Noam, pointed out that this is from the compiled form of the anonymous function added by desktop.el.gz. How does one go about getting `describe-variable' to return the non-bytecode version of a variable, including, in this case, the add-hook `after-init-hook' value from desktop.el.gz? Thanks.