From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: TheFlyingDutchman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: variable's documentation string Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <67ca21fb-4953-4699-b190-df74a1035228@r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246290479 27758 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2009 15:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:47:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 17:47:52 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 1MLJ5E-0005CM-DE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:47:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MLJ5D-0005U9-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:47:51 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.31.106.35 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246260264 17415 127.0.0.1 (29 Jun 2009 07:24:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.31.106.35; posting-account=9bWHAAoAAAAxSFC_2O_ssTETNW9NhMbW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170413 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:37:28 -0400 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:65633 Archived-At: If I declare a variable: (defvar myVar 2 "This is the documentation string) According to the way I read the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference manual I should be able to retrieve this string with: (message "the docstring for %s is %s" 'myVar (documentation-property 'myVar 'variable-documentation)) but the output is the docstring for myVar is nil Does anyone know what I am missing or doing wrong?