Re: Modifying a variable from describe-variable

[Josh]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:34 PM, João Távora <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Your solution can be useful for primitive types, but handling
>> more complex values in the echo area would not be really convenient.
>
> On the other hand, the minibuffer can do multi-line-editing, I don't
> find that inconvenient.

Deepak Goel's miniedit library[0] makes such editing quite pleasant.

[0] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniEdit