From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting non-user variables Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 18:40:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83tw41c9vr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170531142644.GA6848@workstation> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496245283 19737 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2017 15:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 15:41:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 31 17:41:09 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5kD-0004Uf-Gh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 17:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60260 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5kI-0007da-Vg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5jf-0007dH-78 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5ja-0008Cw-C6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5ja-0008Cs-8Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4641 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5jZ-0005NF-KH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:40:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170531142644.GA6848@workstation> (hectorlahoz@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113298 Archived-At: > From: "Héctor Lahoz" > Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:26:44 +0200 > > Recently I upgraded my Emacs to version 24 (I don't like to live on > the edge :-) and noticed that I can't use set-variable to set > this buffer-local variable anymore. What should I do? > Why was this changed? > > ;; before I did: > ;; set-variable RET mpkg-master-file RET "file.txt" RET > (make-variable-buffer-local > (defvar mpkg-master-file)) What package defines mpkg-master-file? I couldn't find it in packages bundled with Emacs. Also, what version of Emacs did you have before the upgrade?