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Re: Defaults for set-variable
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Defaults for set-variable |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:05:32 +0900 |
2005/11/1, David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> And I am uneasy about giving a low level primitive this sort of
> accessibility.
Especially since the name "set" would be so tempting for users (and
familiar from other programs) -- I can imagine new users always using
"M-x set" instead of set-variable (not even realizing the latter
exists) simply because it's the first thing that gets completed to,
and then being annoyed at the presence of all those obscure and
useless variable names that completion shows them...
-miles
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- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Juri Linkov, 2005/11/01
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, David Kastrup, 2005/11/01
- Re: Defaults for set-variable,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/02
- RE: Defaults for set-variable, Drew Adams, 2005/11/02
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Sascha Wilde, 2005/11/02
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Juri Linkov, 2005/11/03
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Sascha Wilde, 2005/11/03
- RE: Defaults for set-variable, Drew Adams, 2005/11/03
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Miles Bader, 2005/11/03
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Juri Linkov, 2005/11/04
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, David Kastrup, 2005/11/04
- Re: Defaults for set-variable, Juri Linkov, 2005/11/05