From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lexical vs. dynamic: small examples?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:23:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a9bddb9ec23089cd1f6@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtpj3hpj.fsf@zoho.eu>
>> (defvar saved-buffer-read-only)
>> (defun delete-whitespace-at-eol ()
>> (interactive)
>> (setq saved-buffer-read-only buffer-read-only)
>> (setq buffer-read-only nil)
>> (save-excursion (replace-regexp " *$" "" nil (point-min) (point-max)))
>> (setq buffer-read-only saved-buffer-read-only))
>
> OK, but you don't need to store the old value in a global variable...
>
Of course you do, you need to restore the original value, which could be
either t or nil. But indeed TIMTOWTDI: for this specific example, another
way to do it would be to introduce a conditional. In general however
variables can hold more than two values, so for didactic purposes the
above is much clearer.
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2021-08-14 3:34 Lexical vs. dynamic: small examples? Eduardo Ochs
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