Hi Adams

Thanks a lot for your quick response.

After clean start with emacs -Q, the problem remain.

Below is my emacs-version:
Emacs 23.3.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-04-06 on
wei-laptop


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > (setq file-name "test")
> > (describe-variable 'file-name)
> >  file-name's value is nil
> >
> >  Documentation:
> >  Not documented as a variable."
>
> It works for me.  Says file-name's value is "test" (and not documented
> etc.).
>
> Give a recipe starting from emacs -Q.
>
>


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Thanks & Regards

Denny Zhang