From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Confused about buffer-local variables Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:11:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2h11hqx.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: <87eh1ipbh7.fsf@gmail.com> <87lhvq1775.fsf@yahoo.fr> <87a9c6oz0c.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396347131 19185 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2014 10:12:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thorsten Jolitz Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 12:12:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WUvfl-0007Cc-38 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:12:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUvfk-0003rc-EO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 06:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUvfT-0003qo-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 06:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUvfN-0002bb-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 06:11:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:24407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUvfN-0002bP-Dy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 06:11:37 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap8EAFeQOlOkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABZx0eBMXSCJQEBAQMBeQULCAMOEyUPAQQNPBOHZAEDCQivU5loAUoNh0sXh2iEboIaB4Q4AQOWaQaBZ4Y4hjWFTIMyOw Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 01 Apr 2014 12:11:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87a9c6oz0c.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:10:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96901 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz writes: > Nicolas Richard writes: >> Thorsten Jolitz writes: >>> assume function `foo' is defined in library A and uses variable `bar' >>> defined in that library with value "X". Now I call function `foo' from a >>> buffer where variable `bar' is set as a buffer-local variable to a >>> different value "Y". >>> >>> Which value is `foo' going to use - "X" or "Y"? I would have said "Y" >>> but feel a bit confused right now ... >> >> I'd say 'Y' also, but maybe I'm confused and I do not know it. Do you >> have any code sample that doesn't do what you expected ? > with point in buffer local-var-test.org: > > ,---- > | "Y" > `---- Sorry, I don't see how that is unexpected : it matches both your and my expectation. I tried your recipe to check and I also get "Y". -- Nico.