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: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87slz6nr3h.fsf@jurta.org> <200506271609.j5RG9i020638@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87vf3ztg62.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120078396 27099 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2005 20:53:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 22:53:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnjXn-0003Sv-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:52:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dnjft-0002UJ-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:00:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dnjc0-00019L-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:56:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dnjbs-000165-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dnjbr-0000x5-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnjUw-0001Z5-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DnjOb-00071w-Es; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:57 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:32:39 +0200) 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:39908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39908 - allows setting aliases of user options - does *not* filter out obsolete variables - shows a 3-seconds warning when the variable (alias or not) being set is obsolete; the warning includes the CURRENT-NAME information from `make-variable-obsolete' - does not show a warning for aliases (I don't think it's necessary to single out aliases if they aren't obsolete, and when they are, they already produce a warning) I think all of those are the right thing. Thanks.