From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Modifying a variable from describe-variable Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:29:36 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87vbxqhkvj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <40518EF2-01D7-4F2B-B3BE-9B0686D3DE3D@gmail.com> <52D11C26.1090600@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389436199 8446 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2014 10:29:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:29:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 11 11:30:05 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 1W1vpL-0004Of-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1vpK-0000Jz-VB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:30:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1vpD-0000Is-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1vp7-0003E9-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:29:54 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1vp7-0003E5-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:29:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1vp5-00049g-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:29:47 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f3cf5e.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.243.207.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:29:47 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f3cf5e.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:29:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f3cf5e.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ASM1u0O9asl5Vn8QoTPTXepMaTc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:168075 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: >> I'd prefer editing the lisp value directly, since I never use customize >> and as you also mention it does not work for all variables. > > Interesting idea. How do you intend to ship around complications wrt > the printed representation of objects? For example, how are you going > to handle quotes? As long as you only read and not evaluate the expression, this should be straightforward. -- David Kastrup