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bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Hel
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:35:32 -0700 (PDT) |
> > 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).
I mentioned `set-variable'. But it is only for
user options. (And there is already a link to
Customize for the variable being described.)
And there's `M-: (setq...)`. But for that what's
missing is the ability to insert buffer text (e.g.
a variable name at point) into the minibuffer.
(See the discussion in bug #36525 about that.)
And see discussions in emacs-devel:
2017, "custom-set-variables considered harmful",
2011, "set-variable and defcustom",
2010, "`set-variable' should use :set",
2007, "customize-set-(value|variable)",
2007, "apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all
variables".
- 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
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/07/30