From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: variable's documentation string Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:24:07 +0200 Organization: Anevia SAS Message-ID: <7cws6vjsug.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> References: <67ca21fb-4953-4699-b190-df74a1035228@r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <2c6889fe-6935-41d6-8a8e-2b6a07761cd7@j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246290718 28543 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2009 15:51:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:51:58 +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 17:51:26 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 1MLJ8c-0006qa-2P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:51:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MLJ8b-0006jp-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:51:21 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-b.proxad.net!nnrp8-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T/5tvvGG5vAaWhL7xQ/4hoFnIp0= Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Jun 2009 11:24:07 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.236.224 Original-X-Trace: 1246267447 news-2.free.fr 12971 88.170.236.224:57809 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170418 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:65636 Archived-At: TheFlyingDutchman writes: > That should be > (defvar myVar 2 "This is the documentation string") ; typo in the > post only Here, it works well: (defvar myVar 2 "This is the documentation string") ; C-x C-e (documentation-property 'myVar 'variable-documentation) ; C-x C-e --> "This is the documentation string" Have you evaluated the defvar form? Was the documentation string present in the first occurence of defvar for that variable? (defvar a) (defvar a "Documentation of A") (documentation-property 'a 'variable-documentation) --> nil (setf (documentation-property 'a 'variable-documentation) "New documentation of A") (documentation-property 'a 'variable-documentation) --> "New documentation of A" -- __Pascal Bourguignon__