From: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: 35628@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35628: Keep track of what file sets variables... through init-file processing
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 14:37:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736lp8nad.5.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
C-h v runs the command describe-variable.
Its output looks like
............. is a variable defined in ‘.......el’.
Its value is t
Original value was nil
So describe-variable knows several things including
- the original value of a variable.
- the file where that value was set.
- the current value of a variable.
- the file where that value was set <---- ALAS... it would know that
but that part of its record keeping quits before ~/.emacs is processed!
Try this: put (setq xxxx 2222) in ~/.emacs; restart emacs, and do
describe-variable xxxx.
You might say "Well we only remember one filename. If we remember
.emacs, then we will forget the original file."
Then I would say "You remember two values, then you should remember two files."
P.S., this has nothing to do with
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910021
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2019-05-08 6:37 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2019-05-08 11:00 ` bug#35628: Keep track of what file sets variables... through init-file processing Noam Postavsky
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