From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Daniel Nagy <danielnagy@posteo.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Definition reasoning of revert-buffer-function, should it be defvar-local?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:34:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czql8j2l.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kbxwgmu.fsf@posteo.de> (Daniel Nagy's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:51:38 +0000")
On Aug 10 2021, Daniel Nagy wrote:
> I want to understand the reasoning behind the definition and the intention of
> the variable `revert-buffer-function`.
>
> In `files.el` I see the following definition:
>
>> (put 'revert-buffer-function 'permanent-local t)
>> (defvar revert-buffer-function #'revert-buffer--default)
>
> The first line suggests to me, that the intention of the variable is that it is
> supposed to be buffer-local, but `defvar-local` was not used.
When these lines were written, defvar-local didn't exist.
Andreas.
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2021-08-10 13:51 Definition reasoning of revert-buffer-function, should it be defvar-local? Daniel Nagy
2021-08-10 14:34 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2021-08-10 14:46 ` Tassilo Horn
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