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From: Nick Andryshak <nandryshak@gmail.com>
To: Alan Morgan <Alan.Morgan@nextlabs.com>
Cc: "20521@debbugs.gnu.org" <20521@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#20521: Bug 2051
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 17:08:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <oiry4kpczw9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0DBA2ACE64E8894F80DEC59F1EB9BE23048E1E55476B@NXT-EXCH.nextlabs.com>

> How on Earth? Perhaps setq is broken.

That's really not something you should say lightly! 

> Perhaps we aren't actually *in* a buffer when setq is called (is that
> possible?) and thus the global value is being set. I don't understand
> how this is possible and, now that I've uncovered this, I'm not sure
> what I can do to fix it.

I think you may misunderstand: setq always sets a global variable.
Perhaps you want to use setq-local?

See:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Global-Variables.html

- Nick





  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-15 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-06 23:35 bug#20521: Viper version is 3.14.2 of July 4, 2013; After some hours of use I don't enter viper mode automatically on new files Alan Morgan
2015-05-15 20:39 ` bug#20521: Bug 2051 Alan Morgan
2015-05-15 21:08   ` Nick Andryshak [this message]
2015-05-15 21:42     ` Drew Adams
2015-05-15 23:24       ` Nick Andryshak
2015-05-15 21:51     ` Alan Morgan
2015-05-27 16:50 ` bug#20521: setq-local definitely behaving oddly for viper mode Alan Morgan
2015-05-27 22:28   ` Johan Bockgård
2015-05-28  2:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-10  8:11     ` bug#20521: Viper version is 3.14.2 of July 4, 2013; After some hours of use I don't enter viper mode automatically on new files Lars Ingebrigtsen

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