Re: Propagating local variables?

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > The parent is the buffer where you create the variables that will extend to
  > any children spawned "on behalf" of that buffer. So, not every buffer you
  > create while currently visiting that buffer, but those which match some kind
  > of predicate.

That makes sense to me.  But I see two ways to do it:

* choose which buffers are its children
based on filtering their names.

* specify, when creating a buffer, what parent buffer (if any) it
should have.

I think the second way will be better controlled, because it won't
depend on heuristics.

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