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 21:46:59 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87r49frwgz.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 1387054212 4700 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2013 20:50:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:50:12 +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 21:50:20 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 1VrwAE-00066H-J6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:50:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrwAE-0004mm-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:50:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 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:UoDF31+G9YnCgBPSg/iGLajXu+4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202714 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:94983 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > This is irrelevant: (symbol-name 'my-var) => "my-var" > even if no (defvar my-var X) was ever used. OK, but it is not irrelevant as it is used in the defun. > (defvar test-var 1) (put 'test-var 'standard-value > t) Yes, that works for (custom-variable-p 'test-var) but again, if you examine the defun the interface looks like this: (interactive "v Variable: ") And the question is: how do I make that accept variables, *all* variables, not only those that pass `custom-variable-p'? -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573