From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: defvaralias Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 22:09:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200505060142.j461gYF08458@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200505062239.j46Mdm020681@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200505071844.j47IiT023040@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115496506 19900 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 20:08:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 20:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 22:08:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUVaA-00066J-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 22:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUVi9-0003zv-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 16:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUVgr-0003bt-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 16:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUVgn-0003Zz-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 16:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUVgn-0003PO-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 16:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUVi7-0004ci-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 16:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so1328564wri for ; Sat, 07 May 2005 13:09:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FbFlj2jHBdHFYlBWw7hEUiR/+AVxJ8JmufIN8LNpID5OzIRcoob9ruuuIJUOXEDKAzhRMnIQKliaAnmxT2IX3+Z1qBXfn34c9T9BcZ8xJB8kEAuj3D3y6XDj6AM9/OcVOFaEk0RjTkvo8toR/PBuEioqnl4otXuLOP3XYc4CVlI= Original-Received: by 10.54.50.66 with SMTP id x66mr1619693wrx; Sat, 07 May 2005 13:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.82.6 with HTTP; Sat, 7 May 2005 13:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200505071844.j47IiT023040@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Content-Disposition: inline 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:36835 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36835 > That is indeed true. The confusion arose because I forgot that `C-h v > did not work for variables defined in the C code in 21.3. Uh? *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. ELISP> (defvar *x* 1) *x* ELISP> (defvaralias '*y* '*x*) *** Eval error *** Symbol's function definition is void: defvaralias ELISP> emacs-version "21.3.1" ELISP>=20 --=20 /L/e/k/t/u