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Re: The two-argument form of defvar
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: The two-argument form of defvar |
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Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:48:25 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> (defvar xxx2) ;; C-h v xxx2<tab> (No matches)
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> What kind of info would you expect to get from C-h
> v xxx2 RET? All Emacs knows about it at that point
> is that you intend to use it. So C-h v wouldn't be
> able to tell you anything interesting about it.
It could say precisely that - no value, not documented,
only the intention: to use it. It doesn't, and I don't
suggest it should, but it isn't an obviously wrong
thing to do.
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