From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Defaults for set-variable
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:22:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICEEDICOAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87br1o5f6s.fsf@jurta.org>
I want to fix a bug in `set-variable' related to its default values.
It uses `read-variable' to read the name of a user variable
(a variable for which `user-variable-p' returns non-nil).
But there is one case where `set-variable' doesn't follow this
requirement: when a non-user variable name happens to be under point,
it picks it up from the buffer as a default value, and if the user
types RET, it accepts a non-user variable as a variable name argument
of `set-variable'. The first hunk in the following patch fixes this
by testing the name of the default variable by `user-variable-p'.
The behavior before the fix was inconsistent, but it was sometimes useful (a
"feature"?). The fix makes sense, but it's too bad to lose a command that
sets a non user-option variable. (One could even use completion to get the
variable name: `C-h v foo TAB RET'; `M-x set-variable RET RET'.)
It's convenient to have a command to do this, as a shortcut for M-: `(setq
...)' - with `C-u' local option and no eval of value. Any chance of having
a separate command, which works for any variable?
What's a bit unfortunate is that the name `set-variable' is already taken
(it really means `set-user-option'). `set-any-variable'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-17 15:35 Defaults for set-variable Juri Linkov
2005-10-17 21:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-19 15:43 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-20 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-31 19:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2005-10-31 21:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-31 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-31 23:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-01 0:49 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-01 2:00 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-01 11:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-01 9:15 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-01 13:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-01 14:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-02 10:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-02 20:41 ` Sascha Wilde
2005-11-03 7:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-03 8:53 ` Sascha Wilde
2005-11-03 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-04 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-04 12:07 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-04 12:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-05 9:44 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-08 19:45 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-11-08 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-09 9:34 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-09 13:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-09 17:54 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-10 2:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-03 13:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
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