From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands forcommands, user options, all functions, all variables]
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:10:49 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1IrcoD-002K4AC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACMEMDCEAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
An interactive function that provides completion and a degree of
type checking is much, much handier than using `setq' with `M-:'.
Why would you use M-: (eval-expression) each time you want to evaluate
an expression rather than write it in a .emacs file? In such a file,
you only need to write it once.
To check it, I place point after it and run the command eval-last-sexp
(`C-x C-e') which I find easier to evoke than M-:. (On my keyboard a
colon requires me to press a shift key.) After I have written the
expression right, I leave it in my .emacs file.
In my .emacs file I have completion with the command
lisp-complete-symbol.
For temporary expressions, like
(format "%c" ?\x8b8)
and
(ascii-display)
I use the *scratch* buffer. (That is what is in it now.)
--
Robert J. Chassell GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 19:08 apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables Drew Adams
2007-10-19 20:24 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-19 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21 6:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-21 7:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 20:41 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-22 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-23 0:35 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-23 7:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-26 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-26 22:43 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-27 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 22:46 ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables] Drew Adams
2007-11-11 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-11-11 21:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12 0:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-11-12 0:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12 5:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-12 12:33 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-11-12 15:30 ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands forcommands, " Drew Adams
2007-11-12 17:10 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2007-11-12 19:23 ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commandsforcommands, " Drew Adams
2007-11-12 20:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-23 7:12 ` apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables Richard Stallman
2007-10-25 20:59 ` Juri Linkov
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