From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: void variable Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:29:06 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <410353ED.1090107@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090805421 31669 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 01:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 01:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 03:30:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BouJl-00060O-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 03:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BouMm-0000lW-0z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BouMe-0000ik-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BouMd-0000i9-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BouMd-0000i5-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BouIc-0002JC-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BouIc-0001Ei-M0; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:29:06 -0400 Original-To: Lars Hansen In-reply-to: <410353ED.1090107@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:32:13 +0200) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25960 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25960 Is the behavior a bug that should be fixed, or is it OK but should be documented? Or is it documented already? It is hard to do anything about this--this is a special case of how variables work. I tend to think it is not worth documenting in the manual. Important variables typically get autoloaded, which means they are defined before the relevant file actually gets loaded, so loading the file doesn't set them anyway.