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bug#59248: 29.0.50; apropos lists keywords as if they were variables
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Akib Azmain Turja |
Subject: |
bug#59248: 29.0.50; apropos lists keywords as if they were variables |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:21:56 +0600 |
Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt> writes:
> On a very recent (about yesterday) Emacs from HEAD, apropos lists
> interned keywords as undocumented variables. Eg, the following
> invocation:
This happens to me with a Emacs build from more than two months old
commit.
>
> M-x apropos RET distant-foreground RET
>
> displays the following output:
>
>> Type RET on a type label to view its full documentation.
>>
>> :distant-foreground
>> Variable: (not documented)
>> Value: :distant-foreground
>
> This is technically correct --- keywords are variable-ish --- but quite
> useless. At best, keywords just add noise to `apropos` output. At
> worst, they may be misleading, since an user may assume they can somehow
> control something by setq'ing a keyword.
>
> Regards,
> Thibault
>
>
>
These symbol (nil, t, keywords) are self-evaluating. Their value is the
symbol itself. For example, do the following:
M-x apropos RET ^nil$ RET
M-x apropos RET ^t$ RET
However they are constants, the values can't be changed.
I suggest to remove the "Variable" and "Value" and add something like
"Self-evaluating: yes" and "Constant: yes".
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