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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setting non-user variables
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:45:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tldaxuq.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170531142644.GA6848@workstation

"Héctor Lahoz" <hectorlahoz@gmail.com> writes:

> 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))
>
> Do I need an interactive command to set the variable?
>
> (defun set-master-file (filename)
>   (interative "fFilename: ")
>   (setq mpkg-master-file filename))

... what? :)

Try

    (set-variable 'mpkg-master-file "file.txt" t)

with t as in MAKE-LOCAL.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-31 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-31 14:26 setting non-user variables Héctor Lahoz
2017-05-31 14:45 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-05-31 14:58   ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-05-31 15:20     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-01  9:12       ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-06-01 13:45         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-31 15:21     ` John Ankarström
2017-05-31 15:23       ` John Ankarström
2017-05-31 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-01  9:24   ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-06-01 10:02     ` tomas
2017-06-01 14:20       ` Drew Adams
2017-06-01 15:10         ` tomas
2017-06-01 15:22         ` Héctor Lahoz

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