Re: controlling window-configuration changes

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

knubee wrote:
>> add-hook need a function, not a variable. See
>>
>>    C-h f add-hook RET
> 
> thanks for the pointer.
> 
> i tried:
> 
>   (defun my-truncate ()
>      (setq truncate-partial-width-windows nil))
> 
>   (add-hook 'moinmoin-mode-hook 'my-truncate)
> 
> this "works" -- but only in the sense that all buffers and modes now
> treat truncate-partial-width-windows as nil. which seems equivalent to
> just setq'ing it at the global level. so i also tried:

Sorry, I should have checked what you where trying to set.

You have to make the variable buffer local to. Try

(defun my-truncate ()
   (set (make-local-variable 'truncate-partial-width-windows) nil))