From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:46:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87slz6nr3h.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119892790 16678 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 17:19:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:19:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yonirabkin@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 19:19:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmxFw-0005PD-62 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:18:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmxNc-0002Ld-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:26:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmxJl-0000tv-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmxJk-0000tY-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmxAd-0007ej-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dmwq5-00079V-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DmwkS-0005IQ-PK; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:46:16 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87slz6nr3h.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:23:38 +0300) 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:39671 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39671 There is one problem with `set-variable'. When called interactively it doesn't accept aliased user options. It should accept aliases, even if they are obsolete. Could you fix that? (It would be useful to notify the user that the name he used is an alias.)