From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Diepenmaat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How change value of any variable at run time? (not just in .emacs w/ setq!) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:31:58 +0100 Organization: Zeekat Softwareonwikkeling Message-ID: <877i5y5yrl.fsf@zeekat.nl> References: <1cd84fa4-dc11-4457-bee9-b7b77f589fe1@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229546642 8129 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2008 20:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:44:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 21:45:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LD3GR-0003o4-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40240 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LD3FF-0007d1-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:43:49 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.81.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAwBAMAAAD5pqeQAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAABhQTFRF URgKoyIAmTMXqF5KuYl7y6ui4NDM+/r4zJNdmwAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAACxMAAAsT AQCanBgAAAAHdElNRQfXDBIUAgGiEa2aAAABYUlEQVQoz02SvXaDMAyF3aHdZegD2PxkJhQ8J4R6 juGUuZDUe43R61eGJA0D8B1dXV0LGCJaDDePyOjZBtT9MgSYbIu+UpNl2A+/ukPXfNUku2ROdWhM 99myqzWX3Czp8dhY1n+MfWau+X4fZGNZpecuSwpFMHOZnpskFppgEaksGs5lFoYeYilOEMkjzcGC CzjxJJoowZIAQMPhfdYEecGhBFCOwO9GKkFkXZDtfIAax2C9wwKAWzwFyPGwQrXCIkimbzAHeFtl Ts0vJHvFkRI01ssVwpyMAoHkGmfFqL+TEmSNXjHMXeiHZAjZqjOsVxxSV8UG3Fi2ZGID2Fs2t7d3 6mLTdIdUM+PuECvW/T6gfobnSqTY+DDgmrnmATSnfMiQrTvcDOikyT1OWHxZPIF8As8P/waOjzdn IGt+vRVgYD7CrakFTSfFbwAB0Y+ghWj0IjP0Scz6I2E3zIlFb/8AfR6DwKVgwNYAAAAASUVORK5C YII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:7njTJ/M+E+b4qsqcsbR1M+L4GJs= Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.3.69 Original-X-Trace: 1229545918 news.xs4all.nl 184 [::ffff:80.126.3.69]:50060 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165419 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60750 Archived-At: "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" writes: > How change value of any variable at run time? (not just in .emacs) > > I can use setq in .emacs but I don't know about run time. There's nothing but runtime in emacs lisp. In other words, you can use setq anywhen (although some extensions rely on certain variables being defined or undefined before loading). If you want to experiment, type "M-x ielm" to get an interactive elisp environment. -- Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/