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bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Hel
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Basil L. Contovounesios |
Subject: |
bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 05:00:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu> writes:
>
>> Bind the currently unused key 'e' to edit the variable's value, maybe
>> in a separate popup buffer if the value is complex. E.g. the user
>> presses e, the value pops up rendered in editable lisp format, the
>> user edits it in place, presses C-c C-c and the variable is set to the
>> new value.
>
> I think this sounds useful. I'm often rooting around not quite sure
> what variable I'm looking for in the help buffers, and trying different
> values, and having a command to make this faster would be nice. There's
> `customize-variable', but I... just don't like it. (And besides, not
> all variables are customisable...)
There's also M-x set-variable, which inserts the current value of the
variable when you type M-n. Perhaps all that's needed is for
set-variable to also detect the variable described in the current *Help*
buffer, and offer it as one of the default variables to set, following
the value of variable-at-point (which is the current default).
--
Basil
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, ndame, 2019/07/28
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/07/29
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, Drew Adams, 2019/07/29
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, ndame, 2019/07/29
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/29
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/07/29
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, Drew Adams, 2019/07/29