From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The two-argument form of defvar Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:27:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vbhxf2s6.fsf@yahoo.fr> <87mw396l2s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429363839 21324 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 13:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:30:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 18 15:30:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjSpB-0001VP-7p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjSpA-00079L-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjSoz-00079E-Ab for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjSov-00018w-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjSov-00017X-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjSot-0001KD-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 108.175.234.143 ([108.175.234.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 108.175.234.143 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:30:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.175.234.143 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Aib1IH9xahQtVre7g8EMNvaB+M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103819 Archived-At: >> (defvar xxx2) ;; C-h v xxx2 (No matches) What kind of info would you expect to get from C-h v xxx2 RET? All Emacs knows about it at that point is that you intend to use it. So C-h v wouldn't be able to tell you anything interesting about it. Stefan