Re: interactive interface to supply variables

[Emanuel Berg]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I'm still using Emacs 22.x. In this version, the "v"
> specification reads any variable for which
> user-variable-p is true:
>
> (1) the first character of its documentation is `*' ...
>
> Have they removed clause (1) in your version? If not,
> give your variable a doc string beginning with "*".

Again, that isn't something that would solve anything
because the purpose is to have the help function work
on *all* variables, not just those that are prepared in
this way or the other. In practice, when I am to use
the defun, this can of course never be expected!

> describe-variable uses a custom interactive
> specification. It accepts any symbol that has a
> binding or has a documentation string. If you want
> this more liberal prompt, you'll probably have to
> copy the code.

Yes, I will check that out after we have reached
somewhere sensible with this.

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Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
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