From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `set-variable' should use :set Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:42:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83mxq68yhd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d3r3qd44.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <871v7jqchc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <033D7FA139144B03B1370B9E9C1113ED@us.oracle.com> <87bp6nklx2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287734656 17366 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2010 08:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 22 10:04:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P9Cbf-0005b5-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:04:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P9CHy-00036i-B2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42959 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P9CHa-0002eM-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P9CH3-0002gu-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:56160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P9CH3-0002gf-EA; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LAO00900L9JIJ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:42:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.29.140]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LAO00973LET15C0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:42:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87bp6nklx2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131973 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:20:57 +0900 > Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' , 'Miles Bader' > > > (FWIW, I use it often.) > > I'm curious, what are your use cases? Random testing. E.g., someone reports a certain behavior with a non-default setting, or I learn about a new option and want to try it for a while, then revert back if I don't like it. Also, some unusual situations that I don't expect to repeat too often, like a file with unusually long lines that defeats line-number-mode.