Re: how to turn on showing end of file?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Eli,
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: jidanni@jidanni.org
> > >
> > > Warning: `default-indicate-empty-lines' is an obsolete variable
> > >     (as of Emacs 23.2); use `indicate-empty-lines' instead.
> > From etc/NEWS, of course:
> >
> >    ** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO
> >    variable, are now declared obsolete.
>
> Really ALL those variables beginning with `default-', such as:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     (setq default-case-fold-search t)
>     (setq default-directory "XXX")
>     (setq default-frame-alist '((tool-bar-lines . 1)))
>     (setq default-enable-multibyte-characters t)
>     (setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")
>     (setq default-major-mode 'org-mode)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

No, only those variables that hold the default value of the FOO variable.  E.g.
there is no `directory' variable.

Try: C-h d \`Default value of

> Is, then, the following correct starting from Emacs 23.2?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     (setq-default case-fold-search t)
>     (setq-default directory "XXX")
>     (setq-default frame-alist '((tool-bar-lines . 1)))
>     (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters t)
>     (setq-default input-method "latin-1-prefix")
>     (setq-default major-mode 'org-mode)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

No.

> Thanks for giving this precision...

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA