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* bug#36586: set-variable's docstring should mention M-n
@ 2019-07-10 23:21 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
  2019-07-13  4:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2019-07-10 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 36586

set-variable is an interactive compiled Lisp function in...

Its docstring should mention that the variable's current value can be
edited via M-n there in the minibuffer. Handy for minor changes.





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* bug#36586: set-variable's docstring should mention M-n
  2019-07-10 23:21 bug#36586: set-variable's docstring should mention M-n 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2019-07-13  4:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-13  4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson; +Cc: 36586

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> set-variable is an interactive compiled Lisp function in...
>
> Its docstring should mention that the variable's current value can be
> edited via M-n there in the minibuffer. Handy for minor changes.

Yes, I think that's a good idea -- it's really handy, and it's not
obvious that that's the case.  I've now done so on the Emacs trunk.

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