From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Defaults for set-variable Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 06:20:55 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87br1o5f6s.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130793849 24224 80.91.229.2 (31 Oct 2005 21:24:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 31 22:24:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWh5q-0002dS-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:21:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWh5p-0004nA-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:21:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWh5Y-0004mH-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWh5Q-0004gr-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWh5Q-0004gk-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.203] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWh5Q-0001aD-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so486752wra for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:20:55 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=T21Bnp/OKm2+UVhUYv/UIqUzUaR/ISU1KGXdjtE2t68sGT4z9I68dD3+bMP/oiomgiBw2Bw8v4SoXpSPkMFwQs0wX7rCscIthDBr7hIhVdu0b75d1x0Qfcp5LEfkeFf4cuUeG0Ak1vhd2WaW6E/rZl0B7KtqUYAQpa1iDzrP2Po= Original-Received: by 10.54.133.19 with SMTP id g19mr965850wrd; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:20:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.159.18 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:20:55 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Drew Adams In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:45196 Archived-At: 2005/11/1, Drew Adams : > It's convenient to have a command to do this, as a shortcut for M-: `(set= q > ...)' - with `C-u' local option and no eval of value. Any chance of havi= ng > a separate command, which works for any variable? Er, "M-: (setq '" is _shorter_ than M-x set-variable RET .... (and variable-name completion is available via M-TAB). [For grabbing the name from the buffer, use `C-M-SPC M-w' ... `C-y'=20 -- it looks like a mouthful in text, but it's quite fast in practice.] -miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.