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From: Larry Auton <lda@control.att.com>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: describe variable
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I am running xemacs-20.1-b11 on a Linux 2.0.29 host.  At first I
thought that the following behavior was an error.  After reading it,
I'm not so sure anymore.  If the behavior is correct, it's certainly
confusing at the least:

$ xemacs -q
M-x vm
M-x describe-variable
vm-toolbar-compose-icon<CR>
[poof! a help buffer pops up with the following gibberish inside]

vm-toolbar-compose-icon's value is (#<glyph (buffer) #<image-specifier global=(((x) . [xpm :color-symbols (("backgroundToolBarColor" . "Gray75") ("background" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "gray80") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "white")) 0x176>) ("foreground" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "black") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "black")) 0x174>)) :file "/usr/local/xemacs/lib/xemacs-20.1-b11/etc/vm/compose-up.xpm" ...]) ((tty) . [string :data "/usr/local/xemacs/lib/xemacs-20.1-b11/etc/vm/compose-up.xpm"])) fallback=((nil . [nothing])) 0xb87>0xb86> #<glyph (buffer) #<image-specifier global=(((x) . [xpm :color-symbols (("backgroundToolBarColor" . "Gray75") ("background" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "gray80") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "white")) 0x176>) ("foreground" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "black") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "black")) 0x174>)) :file "/usr/local/xemacs/lib/xemacs-20.1-b11/etc/vm/compose-dn.xpm" ...]) ((tty) . [string :data "/usr/local/xemacs/lib/xemacs-20.1-b11/etc/vm/compose-dn.xpm"])) fallback=((nil . [nothing])) 0xb8e>0xb8d> #<glyph (buffer) #<image-specifier global=(((x) . [xpm :color-symbols (("backgroundToolBarColor" . "Gray75") ("background" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "gray80") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "white")) 0x176>) ("foreground" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "black") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "black")) 0x174>)) :file "/usr/local/xemacs/lib/xemacs-20.1-b11/etc/vm/compose-dn.xpm" ...]) ((tty) . [string :data "/usr/local/xemacs/lib/xemacs-20.1-b11/etc/vm/compose-dn.xpm"])) fallback=((nil . [nothing])) 0xb95>0xb94>)
  -- a variable declared in Lisp.

Documentation:
not documented as a variable.

