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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: waterloo <waterloo2005@gmail.com>
Cc: 3752@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:11:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l8ljn4m4b1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <907065090907040600x6c452684n93bc105623d3dacf@mail.gmail.com> (waterloo's message of "Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:00:07 +0800")

waterloo wrote:

> --text follows this line--
> In section 8.5.1 in the manual `Introduction to Emacs Lisp'.  I can
> not understant what is `readily settable variable' in second
> paragraph.

Does the following make it clearer?

   When you specified a variable using the `defvar' special form, you
   could distinguish a variable that a user might want to change from
   others by typing an asterisk,...

It should be read in the context of the previous paragraph.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-04 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-04 13:00 bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp waterloo
2009-07-04 23:11 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2009-07-05  2:13   ` waterloo
2009-07-05  2:30     ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-05  2:47       ` waterloo
2009-07-06  0:58         ` Glenn Morris

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