From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: don't understand setq-default
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:39:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blabww2u.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eef7ycd9.fsf@omarpolo.com
Omar Polo wrote:
> The docstring seems pretty clear to me:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> (setq-default [VAR VALUE]...)
>>
>> Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18.
>>
>> Set the default value of variable VAR to VALUE.
>> VAR, the variable name, is literal (not evaluated);
>> VALUE is an expression: it is evaluated and its value returned.
>> **The default value of a variable is seen in buffers
>> that do not have their own values for the variable.**
You are right, didn't even see that, had to check but it was
indeed there :)
OK, that explains it, buffer local values, I can't even keep
track of the buffers...
More Emacs than Lisp tho it is a sliding scale... Thanks.
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2021-04-18 11:40 don't understand setq-default Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-18 13:02 ` Omar Polo
2021-04-18 13:39 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-04-18 13:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-18 14:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-18 14:59 ` Omar Polo
2021-04-19 3:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-19 3:23 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-19 3:33 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-19 6:40 ` Omar Polo
2021-04-19 13:39 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-19 12:49 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-04-19 17:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-18 21:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-18 22:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-19 6:44 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-19 17:17 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-19 3:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-19 6:52 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-19 17:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-20 5:44 ` Rounding percentages... was setq-default Jean Louis
2021-04-30 1:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-18 21:55 ` don't understand setq-default Jean Louis
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