From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The two-argument form of defvar Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:48:25 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87a8y3x00m.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87vbhxf2s6.fsf@yahoo.fr> <87mw396l2s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429479924 22814 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2015 21:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:45:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 23:45:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjx1i-0006R1-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:45:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjx1h-0006FM-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:45:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nH0ZcfT5z3bAOKCb1kcO4pHRmGM= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211578 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103859 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> (defvar xxx2) ;; C-h v xxx2 (No matches) > > What kind of info would you expect to get from C-h > v xxx2 RET? All Emacs knows about it at that point > is that you intend to use it. So C-h v wouldn't be > able to tell you anything interesting about it. It could say precisely that - no value, not documented, only the intention: to use it. It doesn't, and I don't suggest it should, but it isn't an obviously wrong thing to do. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573