Re: Is there a way of setting a variable only when it exists?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Not necessarily.  My use-case is an internal Emacs variable I'm setting
> in my `init.el'; at the same time I submitted a bug report/feature
> request to make it a user option, so I assume that it might change its
> name in a future Emacs version.

If that happens, compiling your init.el will then normally give you an
"assignment to free variable" warning, no?

Michael.