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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setting non-user variables
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:45:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shjjakke.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170601091208.GA3432@workstation

Héctor Lahoz <hectorlahoz@gmail.com> writes:

>> Aha, then do C-u before you do M-x!
>
> Thanks, but the key is not "C-u". Either using "C-u"
> or not, when I hit TAB it says "no match" and
> I can't set the variable.

C-u is `universal-argument'. You can try this for
example with C-u c

    cccc (4 c's)

or, C-u C-u c

    cccccccccccccccc (4**2 = 16 c's)

or, C-u C-u C-u c

    cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
    (4**3 = 64 c's)

or, C-u 3 c

    ccc (3 c's)

and so on.

What you describe is because there isn't any
"mpkg-master-file" variable. So you either need to
load the mode programmatically with `require' or
`load', or go to a situation (state) in Emacs wich
implies it, "the mode" being whatever
module has the variable defined.

You can look for it with

    C-h v mpkg-master-file RET

is it there?

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573




  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-01 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-31 14:26 setting non-user variables Héctor Lahoz
2017-05-31 14:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-31 14:58   ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-05-31 15:20     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-01  9:12       ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-06-01 13:45         ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-05-31 15:21     ` John Ankarström
2017-05-31 15:23       ` John Ankarström
2017-05-31 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-01  9:24   ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-06-01 10:02     ` tomas
2017-06-01 14:20       ` Drew Adams
2017-06-01 15:10         ` tomas
2017-06-01 15:22         ` Héctor Lahoz

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