From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Modifying a variable from describe-variable Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:00:48 +0100 Message-ID: <52D14E90.5010206@gmx.at> References: <40518EF2-01D7-4F2B-B3BE-9B0686D3DE3D@gmail.com> <52D11C26.1090600@gmx.at> <87vbxqhkvj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389448878 2675 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2014 14:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 11 15:01:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1z7m-0000pe-Uu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:01:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1z7m-00078L-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1z7X-00076S-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:01:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1z7N-0001x3-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:01:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:59758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1z7M-0001wb-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:00:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.47.39.200] ([62.47.39.200]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M7Y9j-1V8FAC3ZUV-00xJ8b for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:00:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87vbxqhkvj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:cKSFEes1BOfVz9k1lXJh0E+9Icv+uaquMA5l8RYamImVAZhH9PC AZWcecybDUj7NwUDoSUsg+FjwOrVWo7NF6X4MqxcRE7JhXBW4KiHqXNMP/0/0c+oxOOAVA6 m6AH4UYir9D6uE/eWv61lJ4BV/hQz6ESkJ4IX/douVODHRvBDv30FmAkUZuOXQ3lFO6qpbw Th7CqE76zGmkCNvkCSH5Q== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168077 Archived-At: > As long as you only read and not evaluate the expression, this should be > straightforward. Isn't editing and evaluating what the OP wants to do? martin