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diff --git a/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi index 007ba99a154..cf01932d024 100644 --- a/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi +++ b/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ @comment %**end of header -@set edition-number 2.11 -@set update-date 2003 Nov 16 +@set edition-number 2.12 +@set update-date 2003 Nov 19 @ignore ## Summary of shell commands to create various output formats: @@ -8066,8 +8066,8 @@ internal variables that you would not expect a user to change and for variables that you do expect a user to change. Although you can still use @code{defvar} for user customizable variables, please use @code{defcustom} instead, since that special form provides a path into -the Customization commands. (@xref{defcustom, , Setting Variables -with @code{defcustom}}.) +the Customization commands. (@xref{defcustom, , Specifying Variables +using @code{defcustom}}.) When you specified a variable using the @code{defvar} special form, you could distinguish a readily settable variable from others by @@ -8082,26 +8082,24 @@ string. For example: @end group @end smallexample -@ignore -@c commented out on 2003 Nov 17, since edit-options no longer described - +@findex set-variable @noindent -This means that you could (and still can) use the @code{edit-options} -command to change the value of -@code{shell-command-default-error-buffer} temporarily. - -@findex edit-options -However, options set using @code{edit-options} are set only for the -duration of your editing session. The new values are not saved -between sessions. Each time Emacs starts, it reads the original +You could (and still can) use the @code{set-variable} command to +change the value of @code{shell-command-default-error-buffer} +temporarily. However, options set using @code{set-variable} are set +only for the duration of your editing session. The new values are not +saved between sessions. Each time Emacs starts, it reads the original value, unless you change the value within your @file{.emacs} file, either by setting it manually or by using @code{customize}. @xref{Emacs Initialization, , Your @file{.emacs} File}. -For me, the major use of the @code{edit-options} command is to suggest -variables that I might want to set in my @file{.emacs} file. I urge -you to look through the list. -@end ignore +For me, the major use of the @code{set-variable} command is to suggest +variables that I might want to set in my @file{.emacs} file. There +are now more than 700 such variables --- far too many to remember +readily. Fortunately, you can press @key{TAB} after calling the +@code{M-x set-variable} command to see the list of variables. +(@xref{Examining, , Examining and Setting Variables, emacs, +The GNU Emacs Manual}.) @node copy-region-as-kill, cons & search-fwd Review, defvar, Cutting & Storing Text @comment node-name, next, previous, up @@ -14376,7 +14374,7 @@ version, you may have to evaluate the following: @end smallexample @noindent -(@xref{defcustom, , Setting Variables with @code{defcustom}}. +(@xref{defcustom, , Specifying Variables using @code{defcustom}}.) Then evaluate the @code{lengths-list-file} expression.) @need 1200 @@ -16128,9 +16126,9 @@ For example, the customizable user option variable The name of the variable is @code{text-mode-hook}; it has no default value; and its documentation string tells you what it does. -The @code{:type} keyword tells Emacs what kind of data -@code{text-mode-hook} should be set to and how to display the value in -a Customization buffer. +The @code{:type} keyword tells Emacs the kind of data to which +@code{text-mode-hook} should be set and how to display the value in a +Customization buffer. The @code{:options} keyword specifies a suggested list of values for the variable. Currently, you can use @code{:options} only for a hook. |