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 16:45:49 +0200 Message-ID: <878tldaxuq.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <20170531142644.GA6848@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 1496242050 7071 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2017 14:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 14:47:30 +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 16:47:23 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 1dG4uB-0001Ks-91 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 16:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59958 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG4uD-00032h-70 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 10:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG4sw-0002fC-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 10:46:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG4ss-0005db-Sw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 10:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40814 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dG4ss-0005d6-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 10:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dG4sj-0005uN-2Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2017 16:45:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:FJMpnZGglO9DtUYRad+vt2had5M= 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:113293 Archived-At: "Héctor Lahoz" writes: > Recently I upgraded my Emacs to version 24 (I don't like to live on > the edge :-) and noticed that I can't use set-variable to set > this buffer-local variable anymore. What should I do? > Why was this changed? > > ;; before I did: > ;; set-variable RET mpkg-master-file RET "file.txt" RET > (make-variable-buffer-local > (defvar mpkg-master-file)) > > Do I need an interactive command to set the variable? > > (defun set-master-file (filename) > (interative "fFilename: ") > (setq mpkg-master-file filename)) ... what? :) Try (set-variable 'mpkg-master-file "file.txt" t) with t as in MAKE-LOCAL. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573