From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: :must-match and set-variable Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:12:08 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zmmqgtib.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200512202356.jBKNudP11728@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <45234.128.165.123.132.1135193343.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135456489 15881 80.91.229.2 (24 Dec 2005 20:34:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:34:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 24 21:34:47 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqG6F-0000g9-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:34:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqG7N-0007IU-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqG64-0006uk-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:34:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqG64-0006uP-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:34:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqG64-0006uJ-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:34:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EqG5a-0000so-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-35-230-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.35.230]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E68220E9; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:33:31 +0200 (EET) Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-Reply-To: <45234.128.165.123.132.1135193343.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:29:03 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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:48333 Archived-At: > Hey, this is a neat answer to the recent discussion about set-variable -- > it works just fine to set any variable by overriding the user-variable-p > check with C-M-c. Perhaps add to set-variable's docs (or in the Emacs > Lisp manual or so) that that override may be useful to Lisp programmers? Wouldn't it better to change `set-variable' to accept all variables or create a new command than to document such an obscure way of doing that? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/