From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Modifying a variable from describe-variable Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <40518EF2-01D7-4F2B-B3BE-9B0686D3DE3D@gmail.com> <52D11C26.1090600@gmx.at> <87vbxqhkvj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <52D14E90.5010206@gmx.at> <87eh4ehaqr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389459316 12363 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2014 16:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:55:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 11 17:55:23 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 1W21qD-0006g5-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:55:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W21qD-00071S-Bo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W21q5-000711-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W21px-00064l-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40721) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W21px-000644-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W21pv-0006OU-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:55:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 85-238-80-198.pool.digikabel.hu ([85.238.80.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:55:03 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 85-238-80-198.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:55:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 85.238.80.198 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) 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:168092 Archived-At: David Kastrup gnu.org> writes: > > My impression was that editing and _setting_ the variable was what he > wanted to do. Evaluation would only get in the way for that. > Yes, editing and setting is preferable, so the user just sees the lisp value in a buffer, modifies it and then presses some key to set the variable to it.