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: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 06:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <40518EF2-01D7-4F2B-B3BE-9B0686D3DE3D@gmail.com> <87fvouzv1l.fsf@gmail.com> <87fvouormm.fsf@gmail.com> 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 1389595808 11987 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2014 06:50:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 06:50:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 13 07:50:15 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 1W2bLi-0007JA-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:50:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2bLe-0008OJ-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:50:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45265) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2bLW-0008Kr-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2bLQ-0006pU-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:50:02 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2bLQ-0006pJ-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:49:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2bLM-0006yA-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:49:52 +0100 Original-Received: from 195-38-110-236.pool.digikabel.hu ([195.38.110.236]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:49:52 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 195-38-110-236.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:49:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 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: 195.38.110.236 (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:168280 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > > Indeed. Tho you'll also want to pretty print it. > Maybe even better would be to make the *Help* buffer writable, mark all > the non-value text as read-only and bind C-c C-c to a new command > `help-set-variable'. > Using the Help buffer has the additional advantage that the user can see the documentation of the variable while tinkering with its value.