Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables

[Juri Linkov]

> I made set-variable read only user option names because I thought
> it was mainly useful for non-Lisp-programmers who wouldn't
> know about typing setq.

For non-Lisp-programmers a better way to change values of user options
is by using the Customization interface.  It also provides commands to
change values in the minibuffer: commands `customize-set-value' and
`customize-set-variable' that work very like the current implementation
of `set-variable'.

Since `set-variable' was also intended to change the values of user
options with the leading * in their docstrings, I think a new command
`set-option' should be added with the body of current `set-variable',
and `set-variable' should allow modifying any variable.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/