[TriLUG] trivial emacs question

[Jeremy Katz]

On Monday, December 24 2001, rpjday said:
>   ok, who's up at this hour who can answer a trivial emacs
> question?  to set a variable, i can add to my .emacs file a line like:

Why am I still up at this hour?
 
> (setq varname t)
> 
>   but what do i type from *within* an emacs session to set this
> variable on the fly?  my first reaction was:

M-x set-variable varname t

Cheers,

Jeremy

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