From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help needed with defadvice Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:38:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8738mo7w0j.fsf@gmail.com> <87y54g5cd6.fsf@gmail.com> <6F68AA38-BFEF-4B6B-BE9B-105A22359891@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385221155 18479 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2013 15:39:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:39:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 16:39:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VkFIi-0000dQ-Ji for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:39:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44124 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkFIi-0001tS-8q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:39:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54226) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkFIS-0001ha-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkFIK-0001vp-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:38:59 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkFIK-0001uW-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VkFIJ-0000Te-Kp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:38:51 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-174-17.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.174.17]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:38:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-174-17.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:38:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-174-17.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OZXpy784hfyaFeFXghisxJCGxKU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94586 Archived-At: > (defadvice kill-all-local-variables (around inherit activate) > "We want inherited variables to survive a call to this function" > (let* ((set-list (mapcar (lambda ( v ) > (cons v (symbol-value v))) > inherited-alist))) > ad-do-it > (mapcar (lambda ( c ) > (set (car c) (cdr c))) > set-list))) > How about an extra blurb in the documentation for make-variable-buffer-local Which documentation? The Elisp manual talks about it, as well as about the `permanant-local' property, which you might like to use. Stefan