From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: don't understand setq-default Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:33:59 +0200 Message-ID: <874kg3kkwo.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87mttvx1lo.fsf@zoho.eu> <87eef7ycd9.fsf@omarpolo.com> <87blabww2u.fsf@zoho.eu> <877dkzww0r.fsf@zoho.eu> <8735vnwu8z.fsf@zoho.eu> <87blaby6xx.fsf@omarpolo.com> <87lf9fkm6l.fsf@zoho.eu> <878s5fkle1.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21750"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:7MjzYghnS4KT9YQLp9RY5Sk/gP8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 19 05:34:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYKg9-0005X6-UP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34340 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYKg9-0003vN-1D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYKfp-0003vF-FA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYKfn-0003bY-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYKfl-00050C-Nd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:34:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129062 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >>> my-var >>> ;; => foo >> >> And now it isn't anymore so the default is there, great. > > No, why isn't that 7? argh! > > I must write my own version :) OK, so after you say it is local with `make-local-variable' it doesn't matter you do `setq', it won't get global that way? No, but that's consistent actually, you can setq other local stuff tho I prefer `let' and do all computation before any of it is used, but you can, that's right. setq isn't (always) global unless you make a typo... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal