From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can I understand wich .emacs I'm using? Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 01:02:25 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ppn73djp.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <52EC146B.9090708@gmail.com> <52EC1816.6070709@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391213115 18197 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2014 00:05:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 00:05:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 01 01:05:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1W9O5K-0000Y0-Px for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 01:05:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9O5K-0000yB-4f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:05:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:v+Et1WaJEiwM8TCOWmgPEY7Z4OU= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203592 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95861 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: >> and I can I show this variable? > > Whom? For yourself you can use C-h v and then enter > the variable's name. In mini-buffer. A *Help* buffer > then will open and surely tell you what you want to > know. If the variable is somewhere in the buffer, you can place point to the right of the symbol and hit `C-x C-e' - try that, here: user-init-file - otherwise, try M-: and type: user-init-file RET - that way, contrary to the other mentioned solutions, you get to keep your windows and buffers intact (so it is less disruptive to your workflow). But IELM can be used to track the changes of a symbol (variable) value, and to have that persistent, and of course, help mode tells you a lot more than just the value. So depending on what you want to do, there are still lots of ways to do it :) -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573