From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: comment-line-break-function is not buffer-local
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:45:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871x6xtczw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b05062003119bc8146@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:11:40 +0200")
> Doc for comment-line-break-function says:
> (defvar comment-line-break-function 'comment-indent-new-line
> [...]
> Setting this variable automatically makes it local to the current buffer.")
> which is not true, and it seems it never was. (It was added at
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/simple.el.diff?r1=1.317&r2=1.318),
> with the comment but no `make-variable-buffer-local' or equivalent.
> What's preferable? Fixing the doc, or adding
> `make-variable-buffer-local'? (I'm partial to the first option.)
The doc is necessarily wrong, because nowadays the "automatically becomes
local when set" message is automatically added to the docstring when
applicable, so it should not be in the docstring, whether we add
a make-variable-buffer-local or not.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-20 10:11 comment-line-break-function is not buffer-local Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-20 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-06-20 12:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-20 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-20 13:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
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