From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: re-loading an elisp file
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 15:21:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=of=HY4rQrWyVCVt3X=Q-QNrS3q5No3mx-mNNy@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5alb4b2.fsf@rapttech.com.au>
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> The way I usually deal with this is to either reset the variable in the
> scratch buffer i.e.
>
> (setq var nil)
>
> then when I re-evaluate the buffer, var will be set if it is in a defvar
> statement.
Not true. If the variable is set at all, even to nil, defvar respects
it and doesn't overwrite it with the default. Otherwise putting
something like (setq flyspell-persistent-highlight nil) in your .emacs
file would have no effect.
The way to actually do that is:
(makunbound 'var)
-PJ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-05 23:21 UTC|newest]
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2011-03-05 15:27 ` re-loading an elisp file Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-05 16:46 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.18.1299343589.13665.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-05 17:41 ` Johan Bockgård
2011-03-05 23:09 ` ken
2011-03-05 22:17 ` Tim X
2011-03-05 23:21 ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
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2011-03-06 0:05 ` Tim X
2011-03-06 5:32 ` rusi
2011-03-06 8:36 ` Le Wang
2011-03-08 1:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1299547100.4111.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-08 1:57 ` rusi
2011-03-08 2:01 ` rusi
2011-03-24 18:02 ` David Combs
2011-03-25 6:39 ` Tim X
2011-03-25 6:51 ` David Kastrup
2011-03-25 8:45 ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-25 22:23 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.2.1301064125.24725.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-25 23:01 ` Tim X
2011-03-26 4:25 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1301164236.2084.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-26 22:49 ` Tim X
2011-03-05 15:16 ken
2011-03-05 15:54 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-05 17:13 ` ken
2011-03-05 18:06 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-05 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-05 23:36 ` ken
2011-03-06 2:08 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] ` <mailman.22.1299377327.22865.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-24 18:31 ` David Combs
2011-03-24 18:57 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1299348453.24947.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-24 18:24 ` David Combs
2011-03-24 19:09 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1299345251.24947.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-05 22:25 ` Tim X
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