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
next prev 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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