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: An easier way to edit variables Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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 1421186069 12816 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2015 21:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:54:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 22:54:25 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 1YB9Pr-0003tf-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:54:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB9Pr-00035G-BD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:54:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB9Pc-000358-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB9PY-0002Re-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:54:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB9PY-0002RH-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YB9PU-0003fY-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:54:00 +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 22:54:00 +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 22:54:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 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:181240 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov lifelogs.com> writes: > > The `describe-variable' popup already has a link to the customization > interface but the in-place-editing would be really nice. Perhaps it > could be implemented as an accordion-style interface (like in > `customize-group') so it's hidden by default, yet you don't need to hit > a link and go to a different buffer to use it. > It should work for all variables, of course, not just for customizable variables. In the above linked thread there was a discussion about the possible implementation and it was quite simple. I think it was pressing e for edit in the Help buffer, then the buffer is narrowed to the variable value only (which can be a complex list or anything) which you can modify in place and then press C-c C-c to apply it to the variable and exit edit mode.