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: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:47:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87lhvq1775.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: <87eh1ipbh7.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396295264 30994 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2014 19:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:47:44 +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 Mon Mar 31 21:47:37 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 1WUiBC-00018O-Cg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:47:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUiBB-00031t-W8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUiAs-0002yV-GF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUiAl-0004mj-0o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:55833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUiAk-0004mU-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:47:06 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap4EAAbFOVOkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABZxziBN3SCJgEBBHkQCAMOEyUPAQQNPBOHZAEDEa8amWoBSg2GXxeHb4R0ghwHhDgBA5ZhgW2GNoY1hUqDMjs Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2014 21:47:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87eh1ipbh7.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:41:08 +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:96890 Archived-At: 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 ? -- Nico.