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* Modifying a variable from describe-variable
@ 2014-01-10 20:16 Tom
  2014-01-11  0:02 ` Stefan Monnier
  2014-01-11  4:14 ` Ivan Andrus
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Tom @ 2014-01-10 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

The other day I checked a variable with describe-variable (C-h v)
and I wanted to do a minor change (like changing a character) in
the value. It was a complicated variable with lots of
sublists (e.g. font-lock-keywords), so it would have been natural
and easy to change it on the spot in the *Help* buffer.

E.g. the user presses e (for edit) in the *Help* buffer which
either becomes writable or a new buffer pops up with the variable
value. The user modifies the value, presses C-c C-c and the
modifications are applied to the variable.

It does not seem hard to implement and it would be quite
convenient for quick experimenting with the value of some variable.

I checked the bindings (surely someone has thought of this
before), but I didn't find an existing function to do that.





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2014-01-10 20:16 Modifying a variable from describe-variable Tom
2014-01-11  0:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11  4:14 ` Ivan Andrus
2014-01-11  4:22   ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11  5:18   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11  6:50   ` Tom
2014-01-11 10:12     ` João Távora
2014-01-11 16:45       ` Tom
2014-01-12  2:34         ` João Távora
2014-01-12  6:41           ` Tom
2014-01-12 22:44             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13  6:49               ` Tom
2014-01-12 20:51           ` Josh
2014-01-11 10:25     ` martin rudalics
2014-01-11 10:29       ` David Kastrup
2014-01-11 14:00         ` martin rudalics
2014-01-11 14:08           ` David Kastrup
2014-01-11 16:50             ` Tom

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