From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: default-fill-column
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:23:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AOJUL-0007I9-7M@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311222123.hAMLNYW22498@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:23:34 -0600 (CST))
Indeed, the functionality of these variables
is not equivalent with `setq-default'. `setq-default' changes the
value in all buffers without buffer-local binding, whereas
(setq default-fill-column 75) only affects the value in newly created
buffers.
This is a bug; setting default-fill-column was supposed to be
equivalent to using setq-default on fill-column.
The doc string of default-fill-column says so explicitly.
If one wants to make new
defaults for these variables apply only to newly created buffers,
We don't want that--that's the bug.
I think the correct solution to implement a new kind of internally magic
variable which stands for the default value of some other variable.
Then default-fill-column can be implemented that way. It would
be fairly clean and not that hard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-24 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-15 16:37 default-fill-column Luc Teirlinck
2003-11-16 22:58 ` default-fill-column Stefan Monnier
2003-11-22 21:23 ` default-fill-column Luc Teirlinck
2003-11-24 16:23 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-12-27 4:13 ` default-fill-column Richard Stallman
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