From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting non-user variables Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:45:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87shjjakke.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <20170531142644.GA6848@workstation> <878tldaxuq.fsf@debian.uxu> <20170531145825.GA11439@workstation> <8737blaw97.fsf@debian.uxu> <20170601091208.GA3432@workstation> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496324750 20717 195.159.176.226 (1 Jun 2017 13:45:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 13:45:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 01 15:45:43 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dGQQ3-00053L-Fs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:45:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGQQ8-0001CX-Td for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55127) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGQPe-0001CS-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:45:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGQPZ-0000Iy-TZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47149 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGQPZ-0000Ij-NR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dGQPR-0003Pf-Ky for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:45:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:R4h5wXPQ7/FhxrVmvhE5Mi8S+6s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113305 Archived-At: Héctor Lahoz 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