From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Activate an input-method from file-local variables? Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:12:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17593.10.639545.231797@parhasard.net> <85d5c69auh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17593.7667.514209.90288@parhasard.net> <17594.10795.173314.750640@parhasard.net> <17595.15427.286651.872970@parhasard.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153181701 16686 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2006 00:15:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 18 02:14:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2dEg-0003Xc-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:14:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2dEg-000730-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2dCq-0005t6-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2dCo-0005rl-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2dCo-0005rY-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G2dFa-0007YX-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1G2dCn-00011n-UC; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:12:54 -0400 Original-To: Aidan Kehoe In-reply-to: <17595.15427.286651.872970@parhasard.net> (message from Aidan Kehoe on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:29:07 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57225 Archived-At: > On the contrary, users can make file-local variable bindings for most of > the variables described in the Emacs Manual without knowing how to > program. They only need to know Lisp syntax for the values they use. That is, they need to have an awareness of programming Lisp. That statement is misleading because it would imply a level of knowledge far beyond what these people really need to know. All they need to know is how to write the values they want to use. As I wrote, calling them ?local variables? does not say to me that they are buffer-local, because there exist at least three distinct types of local variables in the editor--four if you conceive of lexical-let as different from let. That is a valid point. However, It?s only the phrase ?it automatically makes these variables local to the buffer? (and two more like it, later in the same section) that makes the buffer-local aspect evident. since that phrase is just two lines later, I think the point is clear enough now.