From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Symbol Properties having global context Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:52:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87y2iaa3wj.fsf@web.de> References: <67c408b0-4ae4-41be-a766-413f336f10e8@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3495"; 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:qzQdF2Cp5TsOqv4yj2ahnHciEkY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 07 00:58:42 2020 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 1km3vN-0000pZ-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:58:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56068 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km3vM-0007Y8-NV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:58:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km3pV-0001zH-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:39776 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km3pT-0003FB-Tv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1km3pQ-0004a2-PX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:52:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, 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:126124 Archived-At: Christopher Dimech writes: > I got to "9.2 Defining Symbols". It only mentions that defvar and > defconst define a symbol as a global variable. This is again the "global" which is the counterpart of "local variable (in a function or `let'), not the "global" which is the counterpart of "buffer local". When the manual talks about a "global" variable it typically uses it in the first meaning, apart from the few pages that speak about buffer local variables. Michael.