From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Recent change to describe-variable Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:33:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <874o6gur58.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301790850 707 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2011 00:34:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 00:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Chong Yidong'" , "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 03 02:34:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6BGY-0006db-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:34:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6BGX-0004ll-Ru for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47193 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6BGL-0004bz-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6BGG-0006Kg-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:57462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6BGG-0006KO-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p330Xi5W006380 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 00:33:45 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p330XhsO006425 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 00:33:43 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt002.oracle.com (abhmt002.oracle.com [141.146.116.11]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p330XgeN022563; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 19:33:42 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.57.235) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:33:42 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <874o6gur58.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Thread-Index: AcvxlD/qkfA6ye7qR9i6BGn+eNoHhAAAlTLg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.4D97C068.001A:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138082 Archived-At: > This breaks using C-h v to examine let-bound variables in Lisp > backtraces. > > Also, when coding I sometimes do (setq foo 1), and use C-h v > to examine the placeholder variable later on; this now fails. > > There doesn't seem to be any good reason to restrict the > completion this way. 1+