GNU bug report logs - #3752
23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: waterloo <waterloo2005 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:05:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 3752 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: waterloo <waterloo2005 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 3752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:11:46 -0400

waterloo wrote:

> --text follows this line--
> In section 8.5.1 in the manual `Introduction to Emacs Lisp'.  I can
> not understant what is `readily settable variable' in second
> paragraph.

Does the following make it clearer?

   When you specified a variable using the `defvar' special form, you
   could distinguish a variable that a user might want to change from
   others by typing an asterisk,...

It should be read in the context of the previous paragraph.
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