From: Yoni Rabkin <yonirabkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:14:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6d534df05061904146383fed@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello, I'm on CVS GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1
As far as I understand, the function set-variable, called
interactively will only tab-complete the names of variables defined as
"interactive".
This fact is not stated in the documentation string for set-variable.
This is only mentioned (or could be understood) from the documentation
itself. The documentation string reads as follows:
"Set VARIABLE to VALUE. VALUE is a Lisp object.
When using this interactively, enter a Lisp object for VALUE.
If you want VALUE to be a string, you must surround it with doublequotes.
VALUE is used literally, not evaluated.
If VARIABLE has a `variable-interactive' property, that is used as if
it were the arg to `interactive' (which see) to interactively read VALUE.
If VARIABLE has been defined with `defcustom', then the type information
in the definition is used to check that VALUE is valid.
With a prefix argument, set VARIABLE to VALUE buffer-locally."
This caused the following confusion: A user logged onto the #emacs irc
channel and asked why the variable frame-title-format was not listed
in the tab-completion for M-x set-variable.
This means that we have at least one case of someone being confused be
this. Since the name of the function is "set-variable", the limited
scope is not immediately clear.
--
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
Regards, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell
next reply other threads:[~2005-06-19 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-19 11:14 Yoni Rabkin [this message]
2005-06-20 3:50 ` Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Richard Stallman
2005-06-20 8:21 ` Yoni Rabkin
2005-06-20 9:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-21 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-26 23:23 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-27 13:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 15:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 16:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 18:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-27 18:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 19:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 1:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-04 16:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 17:02 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-05 1:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-05 16:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-07 1:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-07-07 21:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 0:07 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-28 8:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-29 9:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-30 8:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-30 16:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 19:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-01 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-07-02 4:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 2:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 20:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 18:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-27 21:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 4:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-28 8:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 4:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 9:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 9:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-28 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28 16:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-29 9:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-29 3:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 16:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
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