From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: re-loading an elisp file Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <4D7253C7.2020502@mousecar.com> <95E4E1EE722B4C2CBA1441CF03F2C2C4@us.oracle.com> <4D72C90E.7090709@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300992184 4112 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 18:43:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:43:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 24 19:43:00 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2pUp-0005RY-36 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:42:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2pUo-0003Cd-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:42:58 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1300991469 23666 166.84.1.2 (24 Mar 2011 18:31:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:31:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186275 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:80407 Archived-At: In article , PJ Weisberg wrote: >On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, ken wrote: >> >> On 03/05/2011 01:11 PM Drew Adams wrote: >>> But it seems that we've been down this road before... >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2009-06/msg00394.html >>> >> >> The counterintuitive is harder to remember over the years. > >Think of defvar as defining a variable. If the variable is already >defined, there's nothing for defvar to do. Setting the variable's ... Suppose the default value is 5, and then you reset (via setq) it to 0, or null, or the like. Then you read in a .el-file containing a defvar on it -- what happens then? David