From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: don't understand setq-default Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:39:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87blaajsvl.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87mttvx1lo.fsf@zoho.eu> <87eef7ycd9.fsf@omarpolo.com> <87blabww2u.fsf@zoho.eu> <877dkzww0r.fsf@zoho.eu> <8735vnwu8z.fsf@zoho.eu> <87blaby6xx.fsf@omarpolo.com> <87lf9fkm6l.fsf@zoho.eu> <878s5fkle1.fsf@zoho.eu> <874kg3kkwo.fsf@zoho.eu> <87pmyqg4kh.fsf@omarpolo.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34981"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:RJZ9d1m0dQAiOcf19uVUC9Nab8o= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 19 15:40:07 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYU8F-0008wk-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:40:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49604 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYU8E-0006ig-Dd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYU7m-0006iW-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYU7k-0002kK-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYU7j-0008Ey-5G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:39:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129076 Archived-At: Omar Polo wrote: > It was a contrived example, sorry. It is 7 because inside > the (with-current-buffer ...) I did a (setq-default my-var > 'foo), and that affected the global value. I understand now, I think it was a pretty good example actually. Why don't you keep it and possibly extend it with more examples that you might stumble upon, or if someone asks the same thing again... > Two more points: > > - re space vs tabs: I didn't want to make an argument on > that, I was only saying that for some buffer you *may* > prefer to have tabs and in other plain spaces, but that > it's up to the user, buffer-local variables are away to > implement such behaviour. Yes, so two use cases so far, fine-tuning specific behavior and the buffer instance metadata, if you will... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal