On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 07:44:10PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:

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> Had thought that setq was actually a global thing, not local.
> For local variables I was using "let" and "let*", but that seems
> a wrong understanding.

No, no. I was talking about buffer-local, i.e. bound to the
buffer. Your local is wrt. to the code (dynamic or lexical)

Buffer-local variables are global variables, as seen from the
code's perspective.

You didn't look at the docs, did you?

Cheers
 - t