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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why aren't paragraph-s\(tart\|eparate\) buffer local by default?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:28:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87is09tdr5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1050618210511.179B-100000@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:17:31 +0000 (GMT)")

> Unfortunately, the CC Mode initialisation hadn't been done for the
> buffer.  In particular, the the two paragraph variables hadn't been made
> buffer local.  So the global values got overwritten.

Which is why I strongly recommend to always use

      (set (make-local-variable 'foo) bar)

rather than

       (make-local-variable 'foo)
       ...
       ...
       (setq foo bar)

Putting the two parts in different functions is asking for trouble,


        Stefan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-20 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-18 21:17 Why aren't paragraph-s\(tart\|eparate\) buffer local by default? Alan Mackenzie
2005-06-19 15:55 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-20 12:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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