From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: filebat Mark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what's the mystery of file-name variable? Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:47:44 +0800 Message-ID: References: <21ECC0D3E4DA4DEC8A421034EA5AA724@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec54316e21e774f04b04a8821 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319734080 9398 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 16:48:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 18:47:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT7R-0003O3-4p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:47:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT7Q-0006ZF-O1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT7L-0006Z4-Sw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT7J-0003RH-Mp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:39001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJT7J-0003R9-Hy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:47:45 -0400 Original-Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so3273130vws.0 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=2CjPqxptyqh2ieAg30uN14uvO9uw7l6LwORs/YwcOO0=; b=TNPZJC1i/BbcoElHUvRw5j2CoKMUHfHuzXPCPBtlzPzMmv/tBO84GG0cBI8xNPCcyo kHuf0MqDRkomsEfKL5Dk1mtK8zqlbz/U4fg79tCOKh4Fr88VMaWwIBwf0pYPEIHZymeR utHIBUn0LR0szsp+oOXCDMTxhK9ndfIRKJI+E= Original-Received: by 10.182.8.102 with SMTP id q6mr6627857oba.14.1319734064608; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.182.150.41 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <21ECC0D3E4DA4DEC8A421034EA5AA724@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82672 Archived-At: --bcaec54316e21e774f04b04a8821 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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. > > -- Thanks & Regards Denny Zhang --bcaec54316e21e774f04b04a8821 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Adams

Thanks a lot for your quick response.

After clean st= art 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 A= dams <drew.ad= ams@oracle.com> wrote:
> (setq file-name "test")
> (describe-variable 'file-name)
> =A0file-name's value is nil
>
> =A0Documentation:
> =A0Not documented as a variable."

It works for me. =A0Says file-name's value is "test" (a= nd not documented etc.).

Give a recipe starting from emacs -Q.




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Thanks & Regards
Denny Zhang

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