From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting non-user variables Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 17:20:20 +0200 Message-ID: <8737blaw97.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <20170531142644.GA6848@workstation> <878tldaxuq.fsf@debian.uxu> <20170531145825.GA11439@workstation> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496244070 3235 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2017 15:21:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 15:21:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 31 17:21:05 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5Qn-0000bz-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 17:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5Qs-0006bb-Sv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5QG-0006Yj-Uc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5QD-00010a-QM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:20:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34207 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5QD-0000xy-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 11:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dG5Q5-0006t9-C5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 17:20:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:VGk4EkWjIYorF0J8rJG982kL2OA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113295 Archived-At: Héctor Lahoz writes: >> Try >> >> (set-variable 'mpkg-master-file "file.txt" t) >> >> with t as in MAKE-LOCAL. > > What I meant is that I used set-variable > interactively, as M-x set-variable. > Without LISP code. Aha, then do C-u before you do M-x! >From the help (set-variable VARIABLE VALUE &optional MAKE-LOCAL) [...] With a prefix argument, set VARIABLE to VALUE buffer-locally. So C-u M-x set-variable RET mpkg-master-file RET file.txt RET -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573