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: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:30:28 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <410353ED.1090107@math.ku.dk> <4104091E.4040007@math.ku.dk> <200407252046.i6PKkFH29813@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <41042C27.90902@math.ku.dk> <200407260152.i6Q1qbA00327@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200407260213.i6Q2DNV00353@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090852262 23445 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 14:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsh@math.ku.dk, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 16:30:51 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 1Bp6V8-0008O5-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:30:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp6YB-0001Vg-2m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp6Y4-0001Va-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp6Y3-0001VO-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp6Y3-0001VL-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bp6Um-0008Uj-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Bp6Um-00019y-6w; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:30:28 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200407260213.i6Q2DNV00353@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:13:23 -0500 (CDT)) 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:25975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25975 Actually, on second thought I am not that sure anymore. Several variables, that are important enough for people to want to bind them, are not autoloaded. The situation is potentially dangerous, as we saw with wdired. So we should warn about it _somewhere_. Either the manual or the docstrings or both. The manual should direct people to autoload variables used by autoloaded functions, if programs might want to bind them.