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Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:

> Here is my trashcan system:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/davinpearson/research/2006/trashcan.el.html
>
> When I try to byte compile this file I get the following error
> message:
>
> Compiling file d:/home/mylisp/trashcan.el at Mon May 28 14:51:54 2007
>   ** reference to free variable trashcan--refresh-count
>   ** assignment to free variable trashcan--refresh-count
>
> The problem is that I WANT TO assign to the free variable trashcan--
> refresh-count.
>
> Should I simply ignore this error message then?

Define the variable with defvar before use. You use the variable only
buffer-locally, so put a call to make-variable-buffer-local after the
defvar form. Then you don't need to use make-local-variable.