From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to distinguish gobal and local variables in elisp? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:13:47 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <17682.62075.483045.57189@zogzog.gnu-rox.org> References: Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158869918 29749 80.91.229.2 (21 Sep 2006 20:18:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 22:18:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQUyj-000323-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:17:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQUyi-00006A-Fx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQUwg-0005X0-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQUwd-0005T3-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQUwc-0005SC-Dl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.249.92.168] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GQV0C-0002rQ-H8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 36so189297uga for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:14:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date:from:to:cc:subject:newsgroups:references:x-mailer:reply-to:jabber-id:organization:user-agent:sender; b=Mq/jsm6usQk3FcAbJOh2uEZtP/m+NAkyaFfVc1mTCd0eyKcWQgtdrPZXuEoTefv/lHoImX1xNWw1+JYwt9QEiAFNgdIt9AH8KgUxP5UPPINS+lsIWmly1dzOJGlhbeC2Y2QPILSsDONYfIV8eU2AaIx9D8galZ2Ag68V/+0pCvs= Original-Received: by 10.67.101.8 with SMTP id d8mr6052928ugm; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zogzog.gnu-rox.org ( [213.41.184.169]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 30sm1219622ugf.2006.09.21.13.14.48; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "jronald" Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.1 Jabber-ID: zedek@im.lolica.org User-Agent: VM /GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 on GNU/Linux X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37554 Archived-At: On Friday, 22 September 2006, jronald wrote: > The question comes from setq. > Usually, setq appears in a file without in any parentheses. > Does it mean that it awlays set the global varaible then? Or what's a local > variable in lisp? I think you should try to look into the elisp manual: (info "(elisp)Variables") Regards -- Cheers Xavier