From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:10:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7hc6e7dg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikQ30y3e1iewy+xbdVLDBNoSztWEyJy482zGfPF@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:39:48 +0100")
> Yes, it is a bit silly complete keywords, which are not variables by
> definition. I'm going to install this trivial fix.
Sounds good. FWIW, here's a patch I have pending for the lexbind branch
(where special-variable-p is t only for vars that have been defvar'd
or defconst'd).
Stefan
=== modified file 'lisp/help-fns.el'
--- lisp/help-fns.el 2011-03-06 21:22:16 +0000
+++ lisp/help-fns.el 2011-03-11 02:07:37 +0000
@@ -618,8 +618,8 @@
"Describe variable (default %s): " v)
"Describe variable: ")
obarray
- '(lambda (vv)
- (or (boundp vv)
+ (lambda (vv)
+ (or (special-variable-p vv)
(get vv 'variable-documentation)))
t nil nil
(if (symbolp v) (symbol-name v))))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-11 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 18:52 `C-h v' may offer too many symbols Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 19:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11 2:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-11 2:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11 4:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-11 4:31 ` public APIs and private ones (Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols) Kenichi Handa
2011-03-11 5:41 ` public APIs and private ones (Re: `C-h v' may offer too manysymbols) Drew Adams
2011-03-11 19:08 ` public APIs and private ones (Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols) Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-11 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
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