From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: You can set this variable in your initialization file.
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:59:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxu7kbe6.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0803301630gba98233n713fb510787eb22d@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:30:21 +0200")
>> Maybe we should put these links only on variables
>> where the first character of the documentation string
>> is `*'?
>
> That * was supposed to mark variables that the user would want to
> interactively modify, with M-x set-variable or through customize,
> wasn't it? The set of variables the user could possibly want to set
> through .emacs is a superset of that.
Yes, * forms a subset of variables that the user can set in .emacs,
but it guarantees that this subset doesn't contain a variable
not intended for modification by the user.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-30 5:06 You can set this variable in your initialization file Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 12:03 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-30 19:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-31 1:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-31 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-31 8:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-30 22:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 22:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-30 23:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-30 23:59 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-03-31 0:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-31 19:50 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-02 15:17 ` Chong Yidong
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