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From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: changing tags-file-name
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:39:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171214113948.055af141a808d56eb0a798f9@speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5332.1512729333.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:35:05 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Why would emacs display a variable name, document that setting is
> > fine, and not be able to set it?  
> 
> set-variable only supports user options (a.k.a. "defcustoms").  For
> other variables, use
> 
>   M-: (setq VAR VALUE) RET

Thanks.  Your explanation helped me understand the documentation for
set-variable.  

> > Is there an easier way to change the tags file name (or add one and
> > drop one) that I'm overlooking? 
> 
> You are overlooking "M-x visit-tags-table RET", I think.

Yes, indeed.  "apropos tags" does mention that, but I missed it.  

Many thanks, Eli!    

--jkl


      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-14 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-05 16:31 changing tags-file-name James K. Lowden
2017-12-08 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.5332.1512729333.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-14 16:39   ` James K. Lowden [this message]

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