From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recent change to describe-variable Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: <87r59iknhw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <874o6gur58.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r59ibbff.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301937822 23205 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 17:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 19:23:38 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6nV3-0005yv-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6mVn-0006JM-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34419 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6mKj-0001sO-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6mKh-0004Ig-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]:49894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6mKh-0004IF-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014198.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.198]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p34G8iUx014727 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB872160306; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:08:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:23:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.147 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:138136 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > 2011/4/4 Ted Zlatanov : > >> So if `C-h v' AKA `describe-variable' is going to describe everything, >> it should at least filter out self-quoting :symbols > > At your request I installed a change to exclude :keywords, but the > lexbind-new merge overrode it. So if the current predicate is removed > it would be good to filter out keywords again (though it makes sense > to let pass keywords with a docstring, which my original patch > didn't). Could you apply such a change to the trunk? Thanks.