From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elena Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Persistent buffer local variables? Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <555711cb-95bb-4529-85a4-f15a08782966@z8g2000yqz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291845530 16648 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:58:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 22:58:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQS2A-0001JH-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:58:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQS2A-0007R5-3a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:58:46 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j13g2000yqj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 6 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.96.190.244 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279093509 30428 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2010 07:45:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j13g2000yqj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.96.190.244; posting-account=AFCLjAoAAABJAOf_HjgEEEi3ty-lG5m2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179741 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76091 Archived-At: According to the manual, this behavior is expected, since major modes start by calling `kill-all-local-variables'. I needed to write: (put 'my-var 'permanent-local t) to keep the variable alive.