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* bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed
@ 2019-11-12  1:14 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
  2019-11-12  2:28 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2019-11-12  1:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 38173; +Cc: yamaoka

^H v w3m-command

   w3m-command is a variable defined in ‘w3m.el’.
   Its value is "/usr/bin/w3m"
   Original value was nil

User thinks:
Hmmm, it was changed I see.
Where did the change happen?
Did it get changed in w3m.el? But that's where it was first defined. So
it wouldn't have happened there.
He looks in .emacs . Wait, he doesn't even have a .emacs.
He gives up.

So you only tell him half the story.
Either record at least the last place a variable was changed.
Or don't tell him it was changed.

emacs-version "26.3" .

Yes, if he changed in by hand in his *scratch* buffer etc., even say that too.





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2019-11-12  1:14 bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-12  2:28 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-11-12  2:45   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-12 23:10     ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-12 23:28       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-13  9:19         ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-13 15:06           ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-13 22:56             ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-14  6:27               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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