Re: Emacs Telling You the Kind of the Variable Under the Cursor?

[B. T. Raven]

Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> Dear All,
> The email title almost says it all.
> I read in a slashdot post that you can configure Emacs so that it will 
> tell you/display somewhere (there were no details in that post) the type 
> of the variable under the cursor.
> This sounds handy, but I have no idea how to activate this feature 
> (given but not granted that it exists really).
> Any hints?
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo

If you have access to an emacs installation you could evaluate the 
following forms in *scratch*:

(setq p 1.1)
(type-of p)


The second yields "float" in the minibuffer. So the capability is there. 
It's just a matter doing some lisp progamming.

Ed