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: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 06:23:08 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lhzmpu0a.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 1387085111 19568 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2013 05:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 05:25:11 +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 Dec 15 06:25:18 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 1Vs4Cc-00079m-9Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 06:25:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vs4Cb-00028q-DO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:25:17 -0500 X-Received: by 10.15.51.132 with SMTP id n4mr5709338eew.3.1387085014378; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:23:34 -0800 (PST) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 78.192.65.63 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!w6no1202569wiw.0!news-out.google.com!bd4ni10168wib.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.muarf.org!news.ecp.fr!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 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:xeGEWQKMixte6+3dEPuvLN/AeW0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202737 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:95006 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > And now (recent release of Emacs), `user-variable-p' > is an obsoleted alias for `custom-variable-p'. Yes: 24.3. So what is the consensus (if there is one) to determine if something is a variable or not? - like I said, in describe-function they put a condition on obarray: (or (get vv 'variable-documentation) (and (boundp vv) (not (keywordp vv))))) `custom-variable-p' corresponds to "v" in the interactive string, and that wasn't inclusive enough, at least not in my case - which is - quite general, or am I wrong?! I think the above solution (the Elisp) should be put into something like `variable-p' and then this should be possible to indicate in the interactive string. Perhaps an optional param (and/or prefix arg) would indicate where to look if not in obarray. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573