From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defaults for set-variable
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:52:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vezafkmk.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k6fqzssk.fsf@kenny.sha-bang.de> (Sascha Wilde's message of "Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:41:31 +0100")
>> I don't like the idea of encouraging Emacs users to set variables
>> that are not user options.
>>
>> Me neither. I intended it as a convenience for Lisp programmers.
>
> Any Lisp programmer should be able to use M-:
M-: is not convenient as this new command. It doesn't provide variable
name completion, default values and setting local variables.
> or build his own interactive setq function.
The goal of adding it to Emacs is to share this useful command among
Lisp programmers.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-03 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-17 15:35 Defaults for set-variable Juri Linkov
2005-10-17 21:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-19 15:43 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-20 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-31 19:22 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-31 21:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-31 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-31 23:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-01 0:49 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-01 2:00 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-01 11:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-01 9:15 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-01 13:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-01 14:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-02 10:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-02 20:41 ` Sascha Wilde
2005-11-03 7:52 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-11-03 8:53 ` Sascha Wilde
2005-11-03 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-04 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-04 12:07 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-04 12:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-05 9:44 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-08 19:45 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-11-08 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-09 9:34 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-09 13:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-09 17:54 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-10 2:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-03 13:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
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