From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: customize-style Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:45:30 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030317152226.E536@WINPC174> <200303190005.SAA20377@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048150432 3541 80.91.224.249 (20 Mar 2003 08:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 09:53:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18vvo5-0000uy-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:53:49 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18vvpF-0000Ji-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:55:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vvlr-0004zG-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:51:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vvgz-0002wp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vvg8-0002Xv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:45:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vvg3-0002Nj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18vvg2-000550-00; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:45:30 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200303190005.SAA20377@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:05:44 -0600 (CST)) Original-cc: abraham@dina.kvl.dk X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12483 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12483 Non-nil, in a Customization buffer, means customize a specific buffer. If this variable is non-nil, it should be a buffer, and it means customize the local bindings of that buffer. This variable is a permanent local, and it normally has a local binding in every Customization buffer. My remarks: Note, that the global value got set, unlike what is claimed in the documentation string. I think you misread the doc string--the variable is local only in Custom buffers, and *scratch* is not one. The setq did exactly what it should do. "and it means customize the local bindings of that buffer." Does this mean: *if* the variable *already* has a buffer-local binding or no matter what? I see the confusion here. It actually sets the binding currently visible in that buffer, whether that is a local binding or the global one. Perhaps we should change it to make the variable buffer-local if it is not. Per, what do you think?