From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way of setting a variable only when it exists? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:28:25 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87lexdul8e.fsf@mbork.pl> <878rtcir1h.fsf@zoho.eu> <87a6drviwp.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37049"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.0 (2022-02-12) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emanuel Berg To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 10:42:46 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nU3hV-0009Qw-Tx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:42:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37732 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nU3hU-0007Sz-P2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 05:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nU3gA-0007R9-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 05:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:56113) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nU3g8-0005yC-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 05:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.5.202]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000005BEF6.0000000062305F3D.000038D0; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:41:16 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: tomas@tuxteam.de, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emanuel Berg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136575 Archived-At: * tomas@tuxteam.de [2022-03-15 11:38]: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 11:13:19AM +0300, Jean Louis wrote: > > * tomas@tuxteam.de [2022-03-15 10:50]: > > > > - because every Emacs variable is user option for me, anything can be > > > > customized; I do not know if there are any static variables that > > > > cannot be changed, probably. > > > > > > You can, of course, make up your own terminology. But this might make > > > communication wit others... interesting :) > > > > No, it was misunderstanding on my side. Now it is clear. > > Understood. Perhaps that was a lame attempt at humour on my part. I totally understand it, people introducing their own understanding of definitions will have troubles communicating with others, it causes conflicts. First we have to agree on what is the accepted definition. There is nothing wrong in changing such definitions, though it goes gradually again with agreements among people. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/