From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Juri Linkov" <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: You can set this variable in your initialization file.
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:17:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0803301717vcb5249ar47ff4828ed39c4de@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxu7kbe6.fsf@jurta.org>
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
> Yes, * forms a subset of variables that the user can set in .emacs,
> but it guarantees that this subset doesn't contain a variable
> not intended for modification by the user.
I think having describe-variable say "You can set this variable in
your initialization file" only for a subset of such variables is
sending the wrong message to the user. It would be better not to say
anything for such variables, and add "You must not set this variable
in your initialization file" (or a better, equivalent message) for the
variables where doing so is wrong.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-31 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-30 5:06 You can set this variable in your initialization file Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 12:03 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-30 19:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-31 1:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-31 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-31 8:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-30 22:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 22:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-30 23:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-30 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-31 0:17 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2008-03-31 19:50 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-02 15:17 ` Chong Yidong
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