From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lorenzo Isella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs Telling You the Kind of the Variable Under the Cursor? Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:03:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1D3A0E.5060302@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243429620 27155 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2009 13:07:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:07:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 27 15:06:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9IqP-0004RP-0j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:06:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9IqO-0002Ve-31 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9Ioz-00028G-7i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9Iot-000272-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40845 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9Ios-00026v-QQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:33191) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9Ior-0008Ue-UF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so4947711fxm.42 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 06:05:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xC2QeqqVNQxEpLcS5kVS2kkI1gMQ0I/qqDwGjE8qNrA=; b=ex9Wxqd4w4eibXtoVwwvXNX2XZDi+P6A64J8Vqv2j06kWcsHSLZssOQ15mtYRd/N+t DYd6byWuXoQa3otjXc3VP2c42TBggcNks3azMinpv4YjU11kXoScU4vRJBCfLS32gcfB qvgQmRBWU832P6pNVwXP/TEpZi/ZhCmHrURCU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ri6lhQUXxXdmu8MdPOczvzLIvrtjwWQsYlDS6f9te+x8hMi3GTNcodZMXRtJ8DoNMh /UOFhs2AQRbVsCC2hw6CsKciNRHBElaCasaEW7V4GCnUvzXAhpjcHGRFlHZw8RakzpWe /UWosI1t+GX73vW5TLwzWdjKkJQdI0ypqTClI= Original-Received: by 10.103.174.18 with SMTP id b18mr5035871mup.132.1243429519498; Wed, 27 May 2009 06:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.1.3? (net-93-65-2-37.cust.dsl.vodafone.it [93.65.2.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm2258634mum.5.2009.05.27.06.05.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 06:05:19 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64762 Archived-At: Dear All, The email title almost says it all. I read in a slashdot post that you can configure Emacs so that it will tell you/display somewhere (there were no details in that post) the type of the variable under the cursor. This sounds handy, but I have no idea how to activate this feature (given but not granted that it exists really). Any hints? Cheers Lorenzo