Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yes, it is a bit silly complete keywords, which are not variables by
> definition.  I'm going to install this trivial fix.

Sounds good.  FWIW, here's a patch I have pending for the lexbind branch
(where special-variable-p is t only for vars that have been defvar'd
or defconst'd).


        Stefan


=== modified file 'lisp/help-fns.el'
--- lisp/help-fns.el    2011-03-06 21:22:16 +0000
+++ lisp/help-fns.el    2011-03-11 02:07:37 +0000
@@ -618,8 +618,8 @@
                                     "Describe variable (default %s): " v)
                                  "Describe variable: ")
                                obarray
-                               '(lambda (vv)
-                                  (or (boundp vv)
+                               (lambda (vv)
+                                  (or (special-variable-p vv)
                                       (get vv 'variable-documentation)))
                                t nil nil
                                (if (symbolp v) (symbol-name v))))