emacs question: suppressing backslashes

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:49:04 -0400
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:07:15AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > 2. variable:print-escape-newlines
> >    I'm not 100% sure this is the variable to clear, but it is a step
> >    in
> > the right direction. 
> 
> Sounds good.  Stupid question time: how do I clear a variable?
the 'set-variable' command is how you do it. 
The 'describe-variable' command tells you what the variable contains. 

Also, if you manually set variables, that variable is only set for the
session. You can set variables in your .emacs file(GNU):
(setq auto-save-default nil)


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