From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: You can set this variable in your initialization file. Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:48:27 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87abkfq2j1.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206918037 7806 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 23:00:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 01:01:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jg6WP-00022r-ND for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:01:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6Vn-0003O0-Qx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:00:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6V2-0002wv-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6V0-0002vx-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6V0-0002vs-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg6Uz-0000zk-Sq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg6Uw-0003Jo-FC; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:59:35 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:03:40 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2523 [Mar 31 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93978 Archived-At: > Many variables cannot usefully be set in the .emacs file and yet C-h v > keeps telling me "You can set this variable in your initialization > file". > > I don't know of any. Are you saying that parts of Emacs are not > written in Emacs Lisp and such parts are important to users? > Certainly, parts are not. A .emacs file is written in Emacs Lisp and > evaluated. Maybe we should put these links only on variables where the first character of the documentation string is `*'? Also I expected that at least part of this text (e.g. "set this variable") would lead to visiting the initialization file using `(find-file user-init-file)'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/