From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: void variable problem Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:32:43 -0400 Message-ID: <8762r98z78.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> References: <87aagl92xk.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300905702 19345 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 18:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:41:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 19:41:35 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2Szu-0003a1-U5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:41:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36137 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2Szu-0002lg-GT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:41:34 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:32:43 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UnyI+OjRxBm1SmzuP1XGu5dKq0M= Original-Lines: 10 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-wVsATOBl0YmJ1d0U39W2jAoOwGm5fL8w3PeNJu6EhvQ3OYyFdnmpV+rIxc2pEzHZsnl+2dYzYSRVFfJ!kYfHK5tCfWogOD9fnvTWtbMFb5g8qqOPCa66Rkm8SiKEBAAYNqc42DTgINCnLGTy38C8KbupaxT6 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1664 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186219 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:80356 Archived-At: Thank you and Eli for pointing out what should have been obvious to me. I was blissfully unaware of the Customize feature of emacs, and wonder why you recommend it in this case. As best I can make out, it creates a set of values for variables. But I don't see that the synonyms command requires setting values for variables, unless it is the name and location of the thesaurus and cache, which at this point I simply define in .emacs initiatialization. Why is it better to do it some other way? Haines Brown