GNU bug report logs - #78952
Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 04:28:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 78952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com
Subject: bug#78952: Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:08:39 +0300
> Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
> Cc: 78952-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:34:18 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:20:05 -0700
> > From: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>
> > Cc: 78952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > Thank you for comments, I use the intern-soft to detect symbols existing for package but found it's failed
> > even I unbound the variables. :) 
> 
> If you want to know whether a symbol is bound as a variable use
> 'foundp', not 'intern-soft'.
  ^^^^^^^^
Sorry, I meant 'boundp', of course.




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