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 22:42:20 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fvpvrtwq.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 1387057512 4376 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2013 21:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:45:12 +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 22:45:19 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 1Vrx1T-00045k-D7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:45:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vrx1T-0002Gv-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:45:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.180.105.68 with SMTP id gk4mr5412400wib.0.1387057367257; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:42:47 -0800 (PST) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.116.97 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!w6no437319wiw.0!news-out.google.com!h6ni6346wiy.1!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 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:FspynAaawje6lGFlIxjqm5ZDzuE= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202718 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:94987 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > I'm still using Emacs 22.x. In this version, the "v" > specification reads any variable for which > user-variable-p is true: > > (1) the first character of its documentation is `*' ... > > Have they removed clause (1) in your version? If not, > give your variable a doc string beginning with "*". Again, that isn't something that would solve anything because the purpose is to have the help function work on *all* variables, not just those that are prepared in this way or the other. In practice, when I am to use the defun, this can of course never be expected! > describe-variable uses a custom interactive > specification. It accepts any symbol that has a > binding or has a documentation string. If you want > this more liberal prompt, you'll probably have to > copy the code. Yes, I will check that out after we have reached somewhere sensible with this. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573