From: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modifying a variable from describe-variable
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:50:15 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140111T174736-695@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eh4ehaqr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org
David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> My impression was that editing and _setting_ the variable was what he
> wanted to do. Evaluation would only get in the way for that.
>
Yes, editing and setting is preferable, so the user just sees the
lisp value in a buffer, modifies it and then presses some key to set
the variable to it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-11 16:50 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
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 [this message]
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