From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" 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 13:14:48 -0800 Message-ID: <000a01c9608c$7e697c20$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <1cd84fa4-dc11-4457-bee9-b7b77f589fe1@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <873agmfssm.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229548577 15196 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2008 21:16:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:16:17 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Teemu Likonen'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 22:17:19 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 1LD3kx-00086t-VG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:16:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LD3jj-0003N6-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:15:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LD3jP-0003N1-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:14:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LD3jM-0003Mp-Ma for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33450 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LD3jM-0003Mm-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com ([148.87.113.125]:27992 helo=rgminet13.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LD3jM-0000zY-6V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBHLFNSr008085 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:15:24 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt705.oracle.com (acsmt705.oracle.com [141.146.40.83]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBHLEwVp023929; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:15:00 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:14:48 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <873agmfssm.fsf@iki.fi> Thread-Index: AclgiBkeOMHm0mreRIyhqHydk2VygAAA8oWw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt705.oracle.com [141.146.40.83] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.49496BCA.01F8:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:60752 Archived-At: > > 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. > > M-x set-variable No. `set-variable' is only for user options. You can use `set-any-variable', from simple+.el to set any variable. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/simple%2b.el > You can also evaluate any code with M-: so this also works: > > M-: (setq variable ...) Yes. See also `setq-default'.