Subject: bug#3934: closed (Re: 23.0.96; Document `minibuffer-history-variable')

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:14:04 +0000

Your bug report

#3934: 23.0.96; Document `minibuffer-history-variable'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: 23.0.96; Document `minibuffer-history-variable'
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
To: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:12:31 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > In Info node (elisp)Minibuffer History, please document (mention)
>> > `minibuffer-history-variable'.
>> 
>> Reading the code and the documentation, I think this variable is for
>> internal use, and shouldn't be explicitly altered (normally).
>> 
>> So documenting it in that node would be misleading.  Closing 
>> the report.

[...]

> But it is no less a variable that programmers can use in their code.  This is
> the Emacs-Lisp manual.  This variable is an important variable to understand
> when dealing with minibuffer input.

No, I think documenting it would be irrelevant.  Closing this report
again.

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Subject: 23.0.96; Document `minibuffer-history-variable'
From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:49:12 -0700

In Info node (elisp)Minibuffer History, please document (mention)
`minibuffer-history-variable'.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.96.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-07-09 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'