From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Recent change to describe-variable
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:15:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o6gur58.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
The completion function for describe-variable now uses the predicate
(lambda (vv)
(or (special-variable-p vv)
(get vv 'variable-documentation)))
This breaks using C-h v to examine let-bound variables in Lisp
backtraces.
Also, when coding I sometimes do (setq foo 1), and use C-h v to examine
the placeholder variable later on; this now fails.
There doesn't seem to be any good reason to restrict the completion this
way.
next reply other threads:[~2011-04-03 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-03 0:15 Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-04-03 0:33 ` Recent change to describe-variable Drew Adams
2011-04-04 9:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-04 10:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 10:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-04 13:03 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-04 13:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-04 14:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 16:08 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-04 16:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04 17:05 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-04 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04 22:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 22:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
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