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[debbugs-tracker] bug#493: closed (describe-variable to keep track of wh


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Subject: [debbugs-tracker] bug#493: closed (describe-variable to keep track of where vars were set; not just where they were defined)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:06:02 +0000

Your message dated Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:03:37 -0500
with message-id <address@hidden>
and subject line Re: bug#493: describe-variable misleading origin
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #493,
regarding describe-variable to keep track of where vars were set; not just 
where they were defined
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: describe-variable vs. not necessarily soul origins Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:03:01 +0800
describe-variable shows e.g.,

  kill-emacs-hook is a variable defined in `C source code'.
  Its value is
  (w3m-arrived-shutdown
   (lambda nil
     (sleep-for 5))
   #[nil "\300\301!\207"
         [server-mode -1]
         2])

The problems are: Saying

  kill-emacs-hook is a variable defined in `C source code'.
  Its value is

is misleading, as it looks like you are saying "this is the definition
as found in the C source code" when in fact it has been modified
since.

So maybe say
  Its CURRENT value is

Or if you keep track of whether it has been modified or not, than say
two different things accordingly.

P.S., saying
   #[nil "\300\301!\207"
         [server-mode -1]
         2])
presents the user with unexplained octal gobbledygook.

And maybe even add a list of all the files that altered the variable,
so one can track down just what put that byte-compiled stuff there
(that one doesn't see with emacs -Q).




--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#493: describe-variable misleading origin Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:03:37 -0500 User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
I see no prospect of something like this being implemented.
Closed as wontfix.


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