From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting non-user variables Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 17:10:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20170601151032.GB13452@tuxteam.de> References: <20170531142644.GA6848@workstation> <83tw41c9vr.fsf@gnu.org> <20170601092403.GB3432@workstation> <20170601100209.GA4141@tuxteam.de> <922a138a-d91d-41b1-a254-800e764fa4d3@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496329930 22265 195.159.176.226 (1 Jun 2017 15:12:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 15:12:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 01 17:12:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dGRld-0005Xa-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:12:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45157 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGRli-00068E-Ti for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGRkF-0005Y9-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGRkC-0002CS-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:10:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:57317 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGRkB-0002AS-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dGRk8-0003Zf-Jy; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:10:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <922a138a-d91d-41b1-a254-800e764fa4d3@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113309 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:20:03AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote: [...] > Yes, `set-variable' is for "user variables", aka user options, > only, aka symbols that satisfy predicate `user-variable-p'. > > Today, that means a variable that is defined using defcustom, > or an alias to such a variable. > > It USED to also mean any variable whose doc string begins with `*'. > Alas (IMHO), this feature was removed from Emacs 23 (i.e., long ago). [...] Thanks for the details. This makes my hunches more concrete (without me having to look all that up: you're spoiling me :) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlkwLmgACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaFmQCfX/svHXKQFJn+bLYm5vHyzXEd nzcAn1tGk+KM7mLs8mU0H0wly9nn3Jwx =wFpS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----