From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Propagating local variables? Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 16:02:51 -0500 Message-ID: <87po1v2u10.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fu2se06r.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526504741 10143 195.159.176.226 (16 May 2018 21:05:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 21:05:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 16 23:05:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ3c8-0002Yo-Uq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 23:05:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40619 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ3eG-0008Qz-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 17:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ3Zg-0005Sx-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 17:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ3Zd-0007NJ-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 17:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41558 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ3Zd-0007Mn-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 17:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ3XT-0005cR-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 23:00:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:x4NMj1P6LC5zIIL7FV35pl5LybI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225351 Archived-At: On Wed, May 16 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I think most other "multi-buffer" packages tend to treat one of their > buffers as a kind of "master" and have all others point to it, so they > can lookup shared local variables via something like > (buffer-local-value my-parent-buffer 'varname). I see. Would it make sense to also have a built-in counterpart set-buffer-local-value for setting varname in my-parent-buffer? (I have to check more carefully how a master buffer approach may benefit / hurt djvu.el.) Roland