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: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:39:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87blabww2u.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87mttvx1lo.fsf@zoho.eu> <87eef7ycd9.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="15566"; 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: sha1:9Sy9r3te7qERBIkvx6lpx7Ij7Uk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 18 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 1lY7eh-0003wK-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:40:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37488 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lY7eg-0001Bj-Oc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lY7eN-0001BP-E5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lY7eK-0002gu-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lY7eI-0003T7-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:39:42 +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:129029 Archived-At: Omar Polo wrote: > The docstring seems pretty clear to me: > >> [...] >> >> (setq-default [VAR VALUE]...) >> >> Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18. >> >> Set the default value of variable VAR to VALUE. >> VAR, the variable name, is literal (not evaluated); >> VALUE is an expression: it is evaluated and its value returned. >> **The default value of a variable is seen in buffers >> that do not have their own values for the variable.** You are right, didn't even see that, had to check but it was indeed there :) OK, that explains it, buffer local values, I can't even keep track of the buffers... More Emacs than Lisp tho it is a sliding scale... Thanks. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal