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 23:29:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vwmcmc2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikN71m6AuYEnNNVvo9edx9wDariHay76nicCeJ5@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:27:11 +0100")
> It makes sense, in a lexical world. However, currently you can do
> (defconst :mykeyword :mykeyword)
> and even if you add a docstring to that, I'm not sure it is sensible
> to show it as a completion of describe-variable...
Actually, if it has a docstring, it definitely makes sense. And if it
doesn't, then it's not that much of a problem to include those rare
cases in the completion.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-11 4:29 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
2011-03-11 2:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11 4:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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