Re: describe variable

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From: Jim Patterson
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:24

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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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