From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: An easier way to edit variables Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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 1421180258 16780 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2015 20:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:17:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 21:17:32 2015 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 1YB7u3-00078u-9K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:17:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB7u2-0003LG-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:17:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB7tl-0003Gw-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB7th-0000TQ-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:17:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB7th-0000T6-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:17:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YB7tf-0006vU-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:17:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 188-143-85-163.pool.digikabel.hu ([188.143.85.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:17:03 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 188-143-85-163.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:17:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 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: 188.143.85.163 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0) 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:181234 Archived-At: The other day I was browsing info and I saw a variable there. I wanted to check its value and possibly modify it, so I did a C-h v and then copied it into the M-: prompt for modification. It occured to me it could be done more conveniently if info had a key to show/edit the variable under point. A while ago I had an idea about modifying a variable directly in the Help buffer: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/168042 I don't know if somebody tried implementing the above idea, but if it gets implemented then the two features could easily be combined: when in info and reading about a variable I could press, say, 'v' on it which would bring up the Help window of describe-variable where I could immediately see the current value of the variable and I could even modify it in place if I wanted to.