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bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Hel
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Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:32:14 +0200 |
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > > (`set-variable' does make the current value available
> > > as the default (`M-n') for editing. In other respects
> > > `customize-set-variable' is preferable to `set-variable'.)
> >
> > AFAICT: doesn't `customize-set-variable' prefill the minibuffer with
> > the current value?
>
> Seems to depend. For `fill-column', yes. For
> `default-frame-alist' no. You get a hint at
> the beginning of the prompt: "[repeat]", but
> you have no idea what to repeat, no completion,
> etc. You don't get the current value, as a
> complex list etc., AFAICT.
Oh, indeed. At the end, in this case the :prompt-value spec of the
default widget is used (the repeat widget which is used here inherits
it), which is the quite simple `widget-default-prompt-value'.
Michael.
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, (continued)
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
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer, Drew Adams, 2019/07/30
- bug#36826: 26.1; request: add variable value editing feature to the *Help* buffer,
Michael Heerdegen <=