GNU bug report logs - #38173
describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:16:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 29495, 35628

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 38173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>, 38173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable
 was changed
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:27:59 +0100
Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz> writes:

> It would, I think, be *dramatically* (perhaps prohibitively) more
> expensive to perform that kind of checking.

Yes, I think it's unrealistic (to put it mildly) to add something like
this to Emacs, so I'm closing this bug report.

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