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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:27:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikN71m6AuYEnNNVvo9edx9wDariHay76nicCeJ5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7hc6e7dg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:10, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Sounds good.

I've installed it.

> FWIW, here's a patch I have pending for the lexbind branch
> (where special-variable-p is t only for vars that have been defvar'd
> or defconst'd).

It makes sense, in a lexical world. However, currently you can do

(defconst :mykeyword :mykeyword)

and even if you add a docstring to that, I'm not sure it is sensible
to show it as a completion of describe-variable...

    Juanma



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-11  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 18:52 `C-h v' may offer too many symbols Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 19:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11  2:10   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-11  2:27     ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2011-03-11  4:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-11  4:31     ` public APIs and private ones (Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols) Kenichi Handa
2011-03-11  5:41       ` public APIs and private ones (Re: `C-h v' may offer too manysymbols) Drew Adams
2011-03-11 19:08       ` public APIs and private ones (Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols) Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-11 20:28       ` Stefan Monnier

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