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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Generality of defvar
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 05:24:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1w8ejct.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SJ0PR10MB5488C7DD6E97E954A9A2F3FCF3989@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com

Drew Adams wrote:

>>>>> Yes, but you can press C-M-x on a (defvar var-name
>>>>> 'var-value) and it will get re-set to the new value even
>>>>> if the variable is already defined.
>>>>
>>>> So you can! I just tested and you are right. Did they
>>>> change that recently?
>>>
>>> 80s? 70s?
>> 
>> Haha :)
>> 
>> Nevermind then.
>
> Sorry, I guess that might have sounded a bit snarky.

No, I like the old-school parts of me. The parts of me that
I consider old-school ...

> Dunno when this behavior was defined for Elisp `defvar' (and
> some others), but it's been there as long as I can remember,
> which probably goes back to Emacs 18, in the early 80s.

Yeah, must have picked that up from some old manual.


-- 
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      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-01  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-26 20:35 Generality of defvar carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-26 23:01 ` Philip Kaludercic
     [not found] ` <87r127h40s.fsf@posteo.net-N7wjq17--3-2>
2022-07-26 23:10   ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-27  7:29     ` Thibaut Verron
     [not found]     ` <CAFsi02SEVCEjGNoQ6vPZvMw7d5F39JZAAPCR5VOUnzQDUERkQA@mail.gmail.com-N7yZ2U2----2>
2022-07-27 12:18       ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-27 12:34         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-27 12:52           ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-27 13:21             ` Thibaut Verron
2022-07-27 13:24               ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-27 13:47                 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-07-27 16:29                   ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-27 16:39                     ` Thibaut Verron
2022-07-28  6:42                       ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-28  7:06                         ` Thibaut Verron
2022-07-28  7:34                           ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-28  9:37                             ` thibaut.verron
2022-07-28 13:57                               ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-26 23:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-26 23:23   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-26 23:36   ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-27  4:57   ` Yuri Khan
2022-07-27  6:59     ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-29 15:56     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-29 16:25       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-07-30  3:56         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-30 19:36           ` Drew Adams
2022-08-01  3:24             ` Emanuel Berg [this message]

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