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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2022-03-16, at 01:25, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

> 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?

I didn't think about it.  OTOH, why would I compile my init.el?

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