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: what's the mystery of file-name variable? Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:44:02 -0700 Message-ID: <21ECC0D3E4DA4DEC8A421034EA5AA724@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319733872 7889 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 16:44:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Denny Zhang' To: "'filebat Mark'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 18:44:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT43-0001WM-4g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:44:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT42-0005Cm-BO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT3x-0005Cd-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT3w-0002U6-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:57357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT3w-0002TH-Fe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p9RGiAMu010847 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:44:10 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9RGi9jG020917 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:44:09 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt118.oracle.com (abhmt118.oracle.com [141.146.116.70]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p9RGi3vf030436; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:44:02 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcyUxvmpuV8Dd6R5Qmaj8bQmh/tGkAAAF0LA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4EA98A5B.000C,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:82671 Archived-At: > (setq file-name "test") > (describe-variable 'file-name) > file-name's value is nil > > Documentation: > Not documented as a variable." It works for me. Says file-name's value is "test" (and not documented etc.). Give a recipe starting from emacs -Q.