From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: defvaralias Date: 06 Aug 2005 16:55:46 +1000 Message-ID: <87y87fwo3x.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <1123256291.864415.311180@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87k6j0pe92.fsf@MagnumOpus.local> <1123259961.132592.111850@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <87fytom0lq.fsf@MagnumOpus.local> <1123288133.391089.262410@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87ll3fhowo.fsf@MagnumOpus.local> <1123291099.357873.273700@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <874qa3hlmx.fsf@MagnumOpus.local> Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123311540 28095 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2005 06:59:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 06:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 06 08:58:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1IdB-0004ez-2b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:58:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1Ig4-0001GD-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:01:04 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp2-207.lns1.syd7.internode.on.net Original-X-Trace: duster.adelaide.on.net 1123311347 59.167.2.207 (6 Aug 2005 16:25:47 +0950) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!news-south.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132952 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28472 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28472 "Charles philip Chan" writes: > > > i read somewhere that in the NEWS (C-h n) defvaralias has an entry... > > C-h f defvaralias --> no entry > > I see what you mean now. > > > GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) > > of 2005-05-18 on decompose.build.redhat.com > > This is really strange because according to my research defvaralias was > introduced in Emacs 21.4 (there must be something screwy with the > Redhat's build). You have 2 choices: > > (1) Upgrade your Emacs. > > (2) Ask your question on the emacs-wiki list: > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsWikiMailingList > > I am sure someone can help you there. > I'm running emacs 21.4.1 on debian and there is no defvaralias defined and no mention of it in the News file either. As I understand it, the only difference between 21.3 and 21.4 was a security patch - no ew features werre introduced. Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!