Symbol Properties having global context

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2020 at 12:01 AM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: RE: Symbol Properties having global context
>
> > I got to "9.2 Defining Symbols".  It only mentions that defvar and
> > defconst define a symbol as a global variable.
> >
> > Could something be written and your comments were very enlightening.
>
> If you got to 9.2 then you likely passed through 9 and 9.1.
> 9.1 tells you about symbol properties, and functions `symbol-name',
> `symbol-function', and `symbol-plist'.  It also tells you about the
> value cell (but it neglects mentioning function `symbol-value').

I was only referring to a comment about symbol properties being global.
 Perhaps it is said somewhere, but cannot quite locate the place exactly.

> 9.3 tells you about obarrays and `symbol-value'.  9.4.1 tells you
> about getting and setting symbol properties.  And so on.
>
> `i' in Info is your friend.  It has all of these completions for
> `symbol' in the Elisp manual:
>
> symbol
> symbol components
> symbol equality
> symbol evaluation
> symbol forms
> symbol function indirection
> symbol in keymap
> symbol name hashing
> symbol property
> symbol that evaluates to itself
> symbol with constant value
> symbol, where defined
> symbol-file
> symbol-function
> symbol-name
> symbol-plist
> symbol-value
> symbolic links
> symbolic links <1>
> symbolp
> symbols-consed
>
> And if you have substring completion there are more than
> twice that number of completions of `symbol'.
>
> Another friend: `M-x apropos'.  With input `symbol' it
> shows you a ton of relevant user options, other variables,
> commands, non-interactive functions, and macros about
> symbols.  Enter additional keywords for more focus.
>