Re: Modifying a variable from describe-variable

[David Kastrup]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'd prefer editing the lisp value directly, since I never use customize
>> and as you also mention it does not work for all variables.
>
> Interesting idea.  How do you intend to ship around complications wrt
> the printed representation of objects?  For example, how are you going
> to handle quotes?

As long as you only read and not evaluate the expression, this should be
straightforward.

-- 
David Kastrup