From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: changing tags-file-name
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:39:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171214113948.055af141a808d56eb0a798f9@speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5332.1512729333.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:35:05 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Why would emacs display a variable name, document that setting is
> > fine, and not be able to set it?
>
> set-variable only supports user options (a.k.a. "defcustoms"). For
> other variables, use
>
> M-: (setq VAR VALUE) RET
Thanks. Your explanation helped me understand the documentation for
set-variable.
> > Is there an easier way to change the tags file name (or add one and
> > drop one) that I'm overlooking?
>
> You are overlooking "M-x visit-tags-table RET", I think.
Yes, indeed. "apropos tags" does mention that, but I missed it.
Many thanks, Eli!
--jkl
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2017-12-05 16:31 changing tags-file-name James K. Lowden
2017-12-08 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2017-12-14 16:39 ` James K. Lowden [this message]
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