GNU bug report logs - #30241
Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:15:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: acm <at> muc.de
Cc: 30241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30241: Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined.
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 13:24:50 +0200
> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:33:04 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 30241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:34:53 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> > Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 30241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > > I think you'll see a difference - it is, IMO, "significantly
> > > different".
> > 
> > Actually, no, I didn't.  I do see some additional explanations that
> > might have helped Alan understand the issue, but nothing
> > "significant".  So much so that I doubt Alan will find the CL docs
> > helpful after disliking our docs of the same subject, as he did, based
> > on his original bug report.  Of course, it's possible that I'm missing
> > something here.
> > 
> > Therefore, I invite Alan (and anyone else who'd like to chime in) to
> > please compare the CL docs on this matter with ours, and tell what
> > parts of the former made the issue "fall into place" (pun intended)
> > wrt this topic, where our docs don't.  Bonus points for proposing
> > patches for the relevant parts of the ELisp manual, to make this
> > subject's documentation "significantly" better.
> 
> Alan, any inputs on this?  As you disliked the current text so much,
> I'd like to fix it if possible for Emacs 26.1.

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