>>>> On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 00:22:59 +0100, John Paul
Wallington <jpw(a)shootybangbang.com> said:
jpw> James LewisMoss <dres(a)lewismoss.net> wrote:
> OK. I run "xemacs21 -vanilla". Then "(setq
mouse-avoidance-mode
> 'banish)". Then when I do C-h m I get the error: Symbol's value
> as variable is void: mouse-avoidance-mode-line-string
>
> Seems to be a problem with setting the var rather than
> customizing, but is still a bug?
jpw> If we add an autoload cookie for
jpw> `mouse-avoidance-mode-line-string' then we wont see the error.
jpw> However, (setq mouse-avoidance-mode 'banish) is wrong because it
jpw> doesn't call the mouse-avoidance-mode function so the user
jpw> doesn't get any mouse-avoidance functionality.
I agree, but this was in a file that was auto generated at one
point. (Long ago.) So it's reasonable to expect that others might have
the same old setting somewhere.
Jim
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