如何控制emacs中的变量?

pro*_*eek 0 emacs

组织模式手册第49页有以下注释.

"To limit tag inheritance to specific tags, or to turn it off entirely, use the variable org-use-tag-iheritance and org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance." 

看来我应该将这些变量设置为emacs中的1或t.它是否正确?如果是这样,我该怎么做?

phi*_*mue 5

M-x set-variable RET var RET value(来自http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_478.html)