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- From: jimp@cognos.COM (Jim Patterson)
- Subject: Re: describe variable
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.182443.18952@cognos.com>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:24:43 GMT
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- gunnar@sundsvall.trab.se (Gunnar.Bostrom) writes:
- : Thank you folks that pointed me to the M-x apropos command. The only
- : drawback about that command is that it doesn't provide the current
- : value of the variable. Any help on that?
- : Regards
-
- Try 'list-options' or 'edit-options' then. This doesn't provide a
- regular-expression filter, but does show you all interesting variables
- and lets you view and change the value of each. You can do a
- re-search to find what you're looking for, or just browse through the
- options buffer.
-
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