From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>, 36826@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 05:00:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9vljxrs.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3h8763uon.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:01:12 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu> writes:
>
>> Bind the currently unused key 'e' to edit the variable's value, maybe
>> in a separate popup buffer if the value is complex. E.g. the user
>> presses e, the value pops up rendered in editable lisp format, the
>> user edits it in place, presses C-c C-c and the variable is set to the
>> new value.
>
> I think this sounds useful. I'm often rooting around not quite sure
> what variable I'm looking for in the help buffers, and trying different
> values, and having a command to make this faster would be nice. There's
> `customize-variable', but I... just don't like it. (And besides, not
> all variables are customisable...)
There's also M-x set-variable, which inserts the current value of the
variable when you type M-n. Perhaps all that's needed is for
set-variable to also detect the variable described in the current *Help*
buffer, and offer it as one of the default variables to set, following
the value of variable-at-point (which is the current default).
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-28 6:08 bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer ndame
2019-07-28 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-28 17:53 ` ndame
2019-07-28 18:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 4:00 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-07-29 4:35 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-29 18:15 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-29 13:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-29 4:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-29 4:38 ` ndame
2019-07-29 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-30 0:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-30 2:43 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-30 4:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-30 18:53 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-30 21:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-29 4:46 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-17 17:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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