Re: with a fresh emacs "(buffer-local-value fundamental-mode (current-buffer))" error.

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> writes:

>> If you need to detect (and not just suppress) longlines-mode without
>> having to load it, you can do bound-and-true-p 'longlines-mode)

This should be (bound-and-true-p longlines-mode), because the
bound-and-true-p macro treats its VAR argument like setq; it is a macro,
not an ordinary Lisp function.  Its docstring needs to be
corrected---I'll do this once I when I get the chance.

> Which leads me to suspect that I went down this route at some point in
> the past found there were 'issues' with qouting around longlines-mode
> with regards symbol vs. variable state and _might_ explain my funky
> quoting.

It sounds like you have some confusions about the difference between a
symbol and a variable.  I suggest reading the first few chapters of the
Emacs Lisp reference manual, which explains this topic carefully.

> What prob. will work is to test if symbol both symbol _and_ var are
> available:
>
> (and (boundp 'longlines-mode) (bound-and-true-p longlines-mode))

It's not necessary to use bound-and-true-p here.

  (bound-and-true-p longlines-mode)

is _exactly_ the same as

  (and (boundp 'longlines-mode) longlines-mode)

(That's simply how the bound-and-true-p macro is defined.)