Subject: Re: bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:55:39 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:

> There's also M-x set-variable, which inserts the current value of the
> variable when you type M-n.

Oh, nice.  I didn't know that.

> 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).

Yes, or bind `e' to a command that would call `set-variable' with the
variable under point?

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