Interesting, thanks. I suppose I misunderstand the manual page that I
linked.

- Nick

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > I think you may misunderstand: setq always sets a global variable.
>
> Since when?
>
>   -- Macro: setq-local variable value
>      This macro creates a buffer-local binding in the current buffer for
>      VARIABLE, and gives it the buffer-local value VALUE.  It is
>      equivalent to calling `make-local-variable' followed by `setq'.
>      VARIABLE should be an unquoted symbol.
>
> Note the last sentence, which points out that `setq' does not always
> set a global variable.  If it did, then so would `setq-local',
> according to that text.
>