From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Numbered backup stopped working Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:11:05 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1162416662.142740.20650@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164043171 19385 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 17:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 18:19:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmCnY-0002X3-Pe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:19:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmCnX-0001Pk-Ro for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmCgq-0004Aq-IR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmCgo-000496-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmCgo-00048x-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:12:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GmCgo-0006ZO-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:12:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GmCgZ-0000ng-92 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:12:01 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:11:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: 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:38838 Archived-At: David Combs wrote: > Question: is there a way to get apropos, for variables, > to also show the current *value* of that variable? No. > Here's my doc for apropos: > > > apropos is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `apropos'. > (apropos APROPOS-REGEXP &optional DO-ALL) > > Show all bound symbols whose names match APROPOS-REGEXP. > With optional prefix DO-ALL or if `apropos-do-all' is non-nil, also > show unbound symbols and key bindings, which is a little more > time-consuming. Returns list of symbols and documentation found. > > > I set apropos-do-all to 1 and tried it, but got no > actual *values*. That is no surprise: apropos-do-all only controls which symbols are shown, not what information about them is shown. > [ASIDE: how to (interactively) do M-x apropos with > the *prefix* "DO-ALL"? "With optional prefix" means: C-u M-x apropos But since you're only interested in variables: C-u M-x apropos-variable > or, for that matter, how to write a lisp expr that does it? (apropos-variable "backup" t) > Here's an occur on do-all, for apropos.el: ... > Thanks in-advance for the do-all answers] > > > Back to having apropos also type out the *values* of the > variables finds? > > Any idea? > > (Sure would be simpler than having to (1) run apropos, > then (2) for each variable found, do C-H v on it!) In the *Apropos* buffer you can simply click on the symbol, or move point into its description and type RET. -- Kevin