From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc and help for defvaralias Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:22:22 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151295765 20418 80.91.229.2 (26 Jun 2006 04:22:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 26 06:22:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuicT-0002gN-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:22:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuicT-0007Gx-3y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FuicH-0007Gd-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FuicF-0007F8-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuicF-0007F0-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.83] (helo=mgate03.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fuio0-0007Hd-EJ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com (relay11 [10.29.19.46]) by mgate03.necel.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5Q3e8qZ025476; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:22:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:22:23 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:22:23 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id D8BD053F; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:22:22 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:23:47 -0700") Original-Lines: 14 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:56184 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > For (defvaralias 'foo 'bar), `describe-variable' on foo says > that it is an alias for bar, but `describe-variable' on bar > says nothing about foo. Help on bar should say something > like this: > > "`bar' has the following aliases: `foo'." Why? -Miles -- Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.