From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An easier way to edit variables Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:22:08 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421184180 15003 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2015 21:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:23:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 22:22:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YB8vE-0002YJ-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:22:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB8vD-00035g-Uz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB8v0-00035Q-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:22:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB8ux-0006LL-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:22:30 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB8ux-0006LG-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YB8us-0002Hg-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:22:23 +0100 Original-Received: from 198.0.146.153 ([198.0.146.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:22:22 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 198.0.146.153 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:22:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.0.146.153 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7nuj2CG6i0yONrGttdmKByNrtKs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181238 Archived-At: On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Tom wrote: T> A while ago I had an idea about modifying a variable directly in T> the Help buffer: T> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/168042 T> I don't know if somebody tried implementing the above idea, but T> if it gets implemented then the two features could easily be T> combined: when in info and reading about a variable I could T> press, say, 'v' on it which would bring up the Help window of T> describe-variable where I could immediately see the current value T> of the variable and I could even modify it in place if I wanted T> to. I think the `v' info popup would be good regardless of the rest. The `describe-variable' popup already has a link to the customization interface but the in-place-editing would be really nice. Perhaps it could be implemented as an accordion-style interface (like in `customize-group') so it's hidden by default, yet you don't need to hit a link and go to a different buffer to use it. Ted