From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:55:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87v9vljxrs.fsf@tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="169058"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ndame , 36826@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Basil L. 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Contovounesios's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2019 05:00:07 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164031 Archived-At: "Basil L. Contovounesios" writes: > There's also M-x set-variable, which inserts the current value of the > variable when you type M-n. Oh, nice. I didn't know that. > Perhaps all that's needed is for set-variable to also detect the > variable described in the current *Help* buffer, and offer it as one > of the default variables to set, following the value of > variable-at-point (which is the current default). Yes, or bind `e' to a command that would call `set-variable' with the variable under point? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no