From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: can you explain the sentence about defvar in elisp? Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:55:45 -0700 Message-ID: <1BBE2B5E4FE74DA4A35F41BD3814D9ED@us.oracle.com> References: <907065090907030933x5a340225w90f3b29ae8d9d91b@mail.gmail.com> <159B2D5E349D4F3CBFB96D315465E313@us.oracle.com> <907065090907031900r4c4be7dcpf41a2a152e6bc9f1@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246676340 31945 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2009 02:59:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 02:59:00 +0000 (UTC) To: "'waterloo'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 04 04:58:53 2009 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 4.50) id 1MMvSi-0001uH-3O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:58:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMvSh-0001H1-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMvSO-0001Gu-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMvSJ-0001Gi-Ks for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:58:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51192 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMvSJ-0001Gf-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:28424 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMvSJ-0005Xf-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n642vxQS002675 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 02:58:01 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt010.oracle.com (abhmt010.oracle.com [141.146.116.19]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n642tqfv004295; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 02:56:00 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.164.86) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:55:42 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <907065090907031900r4c4be7dcpf41a2a152e6bc9f1@mail.gmail.com> Thread-Index: Acn8S3FHJeU4dyvTSIeYAIFpB5imewAB1drA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt010.oracle.com [141.146.116.19] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4A4EC4CC.00A3:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:65779 Archived-At: > it is in 8.5.1 `defvar' and an asterisk of emacs23.0.95.1. Dunno what 8.5.1 means. But as I said: If the text you cited is in an Emacs 23 manual somewhere, then please file an Emacs (doc) bug, using `M-x report-emacs-bug'. Explain that the text you cited is not clear to you. In particular, "readily settable variable" is unclear. What is missing (in the text you cited) is an explicit reference to _interactive_ setting using `M-x set-variable'.