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: interactive interface to supply variables Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:46:18 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87a9g3rtq4.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87vbyr45bj.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387057813 7362 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2013 21:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:50:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 14 22:50:21 2013 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 1Vrx6K-0006G7-FL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:50:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vrx6K-0006zP-27 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:50:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:FW52Xt1XHta9gwNnRj7fRjcaK1s= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202719 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:94988 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > Declare the variable with defcustom instead of > defvar. Again, this is nothing that can be solved by changing the *variable*. That is the whole thing: the interface should accept *all* variables, and it doesn't. To solve this, we much change the interface, or perhaps some global the interface works upon, not the single, individual test variable. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573