From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 36826@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 19:43:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6b57fbc-d70e-4e36-9e32-ac6c75c3a586@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o91ccp6s.fsf@web.de>
In addition to what Michael said, I'll add this, for
those who think Customize is not for Lispers or is
otherwise beneath them.
If you customize a list-valued option, such as
`default-frame-alist', and you use `M-x customize-option'
on it, menu `State' lets you choose `Show Saved Lisp
expression', which does what it says: replaces the `INS'
and `DEL' entries of `Parameter' and `Value' with, well
the alist as a Lisp sexp. Edit that there, or edit it
elsewhere.
IOW, `customize-option' gives you more along the lines
of what was requested than does `customize-set-variable'.
But yes, `customize-set-variable' should at least give
you the current value using `M-n'. Given that value,
even a complex one, you could edit it in the minibuffer.
(`set-variable' does make the current value available
as the default (`M-n') for editing. In other respects
`customize-set-variable' is preferable to `set-variable'.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-30 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-28 6:08 bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer ndame
2019-07-28 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-28 17:53 ` ndame
2019-07-28 18:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 4:00 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-29 4:35 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-29 18:15 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-29 13:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-29 4:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-29 4:38 ` ndame
2019-07-29 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-30 0:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-30 2:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-07-30 4:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-30 18:53 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-30 21:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-29 4:46 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-17 17:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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