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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'filebat Mark'" <filebat.mark@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: 'Denny Zhang' <markfilebat@126.com>
Subject: RE: what's the mystery of file-name variable?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:44:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21ECC0D3E4DA4DEC8A421034EA5AA724@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB_ojTtbZ=gq+wUamDO05cUJB_yk60UT7ivJ66svo56rFUnxXQ@mail.gmail.com>

> (setq file-name "test")
> (describe-variable 'file-name)
>  file-name's value is nil
> 
>  Documentation:
>  Not documented as a variable."

It works for me.  Says file-name's value is "test" (and not documented etc.).

Give a recipe starting from emacs -Q.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27 16:39 what's the mystery of file-name variable? filebat Mark
2011-10-27 16:44 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-10-27 16:47   ` filebat Mark
2011-10-27 17:01     ` Drew Adams
2011-11-18 15:48     ` S Boucher

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