From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why looking-at-p works? Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:09:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87efkwtfp1.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87tvtttz49.fsf@mbork.pl> <87ina9szq2.fsf@mbork.pl> <53ed13d7-1228-4325-83cc-ebea329221ea@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520413723 14266 195.159.176.226 (7 Mar 2018 09:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 09:08:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: John Mastro , Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 10:08:39 2018 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 1etV3c-0001AV-GP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:08:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60323 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etV5f-0003i4-8T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etV5G-0003hj-2L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etV5B-0005VU-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:50166) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etV5A-0005Qt-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A28E69CE; Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:09:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ClJO188b4Njn; Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:09:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (188.47.41.75.ipv4.supernova.orange.pl [188.47.41.75]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6FF12E670E; Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:09:45 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <53ed13d7-1228-4325-83cc-ebea329221ea@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:116122 Archived-At: On 2018-03-06, at 23:23, Drew Adams wrote: >> Where is it documented? I could find it neither in the Elisp >> Reference nor in let's docstring. > > You might need to read a tiny bit between the lines, but this > (from (elisp) `Local Variables') pretty much suggests it: > > Sometimes it is useful to give a variable a "local value"-a > value that takes effect only within a certain part of a Lisp > program. > > It might have said "is in effect" instead of "takes effect". > > To take another example, the 'let' special form explicitly > establishes local bindings for specific variables, which > take effect within the body of the 'let' form. > > Again, "are in effect only" instead of "take effect". > > (Consider suggesting a doc improvement for this point - > `M-x report-emacs-bug'. And yes, probably the doc string > should mention "_local_ variable".) Thanks (to you, and also to Nick) for pointing me here. I would not call this very explicit;-). I'll try to prepare a patch for the docs today. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl