[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: missing defvaralias

[Marco Gidde]

largo-linux <address@hidden> writes:

> largo-linux <joelvsmith <at> earthlink.net> writes:
>
>
>> > (defvaralias 'journal-default-page 'emacs-wiki-default-page) 
>> > 
>> 
>> i tried the following workaround...  i commented out the defvaralias line and
>> then every time journal.el uses journal-default-page i replaced it with
>> emacs-wiki-default-page.  is there anything i should be aware of (i.e. 
>> writing
>> over things i shouldn't) with this fix?  
>> 
>
> i think i messed it all up.  i saved an entry once and then i added more to 
> the
> entry and it wouldn't save.  it gave the error that it didn't know how to
> unformat the page...  i'd really like to use journal.  any ideas how to fix 
> this?

I think you waste your time since defvaralias is part of the core
elisp engine (src/eval.c in CVS emacs). I use

  GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) 

and while defvaralias is not documented, at least it is there and
probably works. You should download a recent emacs from one of the
usual places and try it with that one.


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Marco Gidde