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From: Josh <josh@foxtail.org>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Modifying a variable from describe-variable
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:51:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANdFEAH_O4+=xKFQqz9Vrg_VrXuKvrfQDX422HrUoSekYNOrdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvouormm.fsf@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:34 PM, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Your solution can be useful for primitive types, but handling
>> more complex values in the echo area would not be really convenient.
>
> On the other hand, the minibuffer can do multi-line-editing, I don't
> find that inconvenient.

Deepak Goel's miniedit library[0] makes such editing quite pleasant.

[0] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniEdit



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-12 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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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