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Unable to edit booleans with 'help-fns-edit-variable'

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Unable to edit booleans with 'help-fns-edit-variable'
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:46:25 -0700

I'm unable to edit booleans with `help-fns-edit-variable'.

For example, if I have this "*Help*" buffer

    help-enable-variable-value-editing is a variable defined in ‘help-fns.el’.

    Its value is t
    Original value was nil

and put point on `t' on the second to last row, and then type `e', I get
the error "e is undefined".  My expectation is that I should be able to
edit this value.

I see the same with e.g. `project-ignore-buffer-conditions' (whose value
isnil), but not with some other random variable e.g. `comp-num-cpus'.

In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
3.24.24, cairo version 1.16.0)
 of 2022-06-17 built on joffe
Repository revision: dc6157bef758cf5ba490219eebccaf33e14430d3
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12011000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Message #8 received at 56038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 56038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56038: Unable to edit booleans with 'help-fns-edit-variable'
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:31:14 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> I'm unable to edit booleans with `help-fns-edit-variable'.
>
> For example, if I have this "*Help*" buffer
>
>     help-enable-variable-value-editing is a variable defined in ‘help-fns.el’.
>
>     Its value is t
>     Original value was nil
>
> and put point on `t' on the second to last row, and then type `e', I get
> the error "e is undefined".  My expectation is that I should be able to
> edit this value.

Hm, yes -- this is fallout of a previous fix that attempted to not
override buttons on values that are functions.  But it was pretty
misguided, so I've now reverted it and fixed that in a different way.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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