From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Confused about buffer-local variables Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:41:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87eh1ipbh7.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396284035 19240 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2014 16:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 18:40:29 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 1WUfG7-0000FN-G5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUfG6-0007Ga-VN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUfFo-0007BL-8n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUfFg-0007ig-QU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUfFg-0007iZ-JO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:40:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WUfFd-0006XJ-Jd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:39:57 +0200 Original-Received: from g231225067.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.225.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:39:57 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231225067.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:39:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231225067.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1kmeGUsbQcdXWOJ3q1Y3gW5XtaI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:96883 Archived-At: Hi List, 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 ... -- cheers, Thorsten