From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Activate an input-method from file-local variables? Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:29:07 +0200 Message-ID: <17595.15427.286651.872970@parhasard.net> References: <17593.10.639545.231797@parhasard.net> <85d5c69auh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17593.7667.514209.90288@parhasard.net> <17594.10795.173314.750640@parhasard.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153121375 6911 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 07:29:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 09:29:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2NXk-0000Lc-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:29:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2NXj-0001ju-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2NXV-0001ia-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2NXU-0001hC-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2NXT-0001h2-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.49.30] (helo=icarus.asclepian.ie) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G2Na2-0004g3-Nr; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:31:50 -0400 Original-Received: by icarus.asclepian.ie (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 80A9B8008D; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:29:07 +0100 (IST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" (+CVS-20060521) XEmacs Lucid X-Echelon-distraction: cospo.osis.gov Gray Data GEODSS 1* NSIRL Flame X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57161 Archived-At: Ar an s=C3=A9=C3=BA l=C3=A1 d=C3=A9ag de m=C3=AD I=C3=BAil, scr=C3=ADobh= Richard Stallman:=20 > > File local variables are a user feature, not a Lisp programming > > feature, >=20 > They are both. You need an awareness of programming Lisp to use th= em, > something not true for most things detailed in the Emacs Manual. >=20 > On the contrary, users can make file-local variable bindings for most = of > the variables described in the Emacs Manual without knowing how to > program. They only need to know Lisp syntax for the values they use. That is, they need to have an awareness of programming Lisp. > I call those three phrases =E2=80=9Cthrowaway=E2=80=9D because the= y don=E2=80=99t arise at > the start of any section, they are mentioned in passing rather tha= n > emphasised. >=20 > It looks like the start of the section to me: As I wrote, calling them =E2=80=9Clocal variables=E2=80=9D does not say t= o me that they are buffer-local, because there exist at least three distinct types of local variables in the editor--four if you conceive of lexical-let as different from let.=20 It=E2=80=99s only the phrase =E2=80=9Cit automatically makes these variab= les local to the buffer=E2=80=9D (and two more like it, later in the same section) that ma= kes the buffer-local aspect evident.=20 --=20 Santa Maradona, priez pour moi!