From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10254: 24.0.92; Local variable bibtex-dialect has no effect Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:21:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <844nxakxtd.fsf@tum.de> <4EE32275.26106.E38FFC3@uwe.siart.tum.de> <2rfwfoz6w2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20242.38530.735318.867329@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20244.41728.921399.487290@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20245.56795.932415.683301@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326835338 840 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2012 21:22:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uwe Siart , 10254@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 17 22:22:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGTp-0004tC-O3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:22:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGTo-0007JJ-7l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGTh-0007J8-TX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGTg-0005as-S1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:01 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:39244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGTg-0005ao-Ls for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGUf-0004LT-W1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:23:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:23:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10254 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10254-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10254.132683535116659 (code B ref 10254); Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:23:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10254) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Jan 2012 21:22:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33917 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGUB-0004Ke-9g for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:15145) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnGU6-0004KU-72 for 10254@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:30 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EAPXkFU9MCrcJ/2dsb2JhbABEqx6BJYEFgQaBcgEBBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kiA23R4lgAgEBCAIMEQMJAQEGAQUeCgQBAgEBAgMBAgEBAQECgngBBgIDBwEEAQEBASqDYwSIO5pjhFI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,525,1320642000"; d="scan'208";a="157190743" Original-Received: from 76-10-183-9.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.183.9]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 17 Jan 2012 16:21:22 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 43DC7590AC; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:21:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20245.56795.932415.683301@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:45:15 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55826 Archived-At: >> I'd expect one "typical" usage is to have (setq bibtex-dialect 'biblatex) >> in the .emacs file somewhere. With your new code, the effect of this >> setq will depend on whether bibtex.el is loaded before or after >> executing the setq. >> That's my main source of worry. > I don't see a "normal" usage of bibtex.el where something in the > init file could result in an early loading of this file such that it > could matter where in the init file this variable is set. (The code All I'm saying is that using explicit make-local-variable calls when you set the variable buffer-locally, instead of using a global make-variable-buffer-local will eliminate this potential problem, no matter how remote. Stefan