GNU bug report logs - #5950
defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: irieshinsuke <at> yahoo.co.jp

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #66 received at 5950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, IRIE Shinsuke <irieshinsuke <at> yahoo.co.jp>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#5950: defvaralias after defvar should be warned in runtime
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 17:58:06 -0400

> Do you?  I thought the problem was that you were overwriting a user setting…
> if you change the first setq into a defvar, where's the user setting that
> you're overwriting?

No, the problem is that you have 2 conflicting settings.
Whether one comes from the user doesn't really matter.


        Stefan
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