From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pankaj Jangid Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: difference between setq and setq-local Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:32:50 +0530 Message-ID: <87fstpjtb9.fsf@codeisgreat.org> References: <87czou67pj.fsf@codeisgreat.org> <87sfxqr95n.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7477"; 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:XlgYj3DX4T8aZ+n+NcA3QK62SvA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 28 05:03:44 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 1mV3PE-0001kl-7v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:03:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33018 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mV3PC-00064x-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:03:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mV3OV-00064p-19 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mV3OT-00083r-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mV3OS-0000sJ-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:02:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, 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:133316 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor writes: > So setq-local always does the same thing. > > And setq-default always does the same thing as well. > > setq tho is the tricky one, it refers to the buffer-local > variable if it exists ... _or_ acts like `setq-local' for some > specific variables ... _or_ acts like setq-default if the > there isn't buffer-local variable and also the variable > doesn't stipulate it wants to be buffer-local soo bad! Thanks for this primer on ¡®setq-¡¯ functions. It is permanently inscribed now. And it is absolutely clear.