Re: interactive interface to supply variables

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> I installed emacs24-el and in help-fns.el I saw how
> they did it in `describe-variable' - this is a
> variation of their method, only, to determine if it
> is a variable, they use
>
> (or (get vv 'variable-documentation)
>     (and (boundp vv)
>          (not (keywordp vv)))))
>
> while I use `boundp' only - I don't know what
> `keywordp' brings.

`keywordp' is to exclude keywords. Those are not
special forms like "defun", or even "if", but instead
:foreground, :bold, anything that starts with a colon.

`boundp' will always eval to t for those, as they are
bound to their names.

Perhaps it makes sense to exclude those, as those
aren't variables, for sure.

But this is possible

(defvar :var-looks-like-keyword)

though further assignment is not (?).

So I don't think I'll add that. It doesn't hurt to have
it say that :bold is :bold.

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