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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: John Owens <john_owens@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filladapt mode stops filling after lengthy amount of emacs uptime
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:18:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1wix1i96.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070406T193330-437@post.gmane.org> (John Owens's message of "Fri\, 6 Apr 2007 17\:36\:59 +0000 \(UTC\)")

> A one-sentence explanation of what this does would be very
> useful for me (I can see having a local variable would be
> good, but how long does a local variable last, "local 
> variable" to me means "local for the lifetime of the function" -
> doesn't this function complete immediately after you call it?

C-h f make-local-variable RET explains that it doesn't make a function-local
variable (these are created with `let'), but a buffer-local one.
The buffer-local variable so-created will last until the buffer dies or
until kill-all-local-variables is called in this buffer (this is called by
major-mode functions as the first thing to do when setting up a major mode).


        Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-06 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22  5:22 filladapt mode stops filling after lengthy amount of emacs uptime John Owens
2007-03-22 14:49 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-29  5:03   ` John Owens
2007-03-29 13:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-29 15:57       ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-29 17:13         ` John Owens
2007-03-29 17:35           ` Davis Herring
2007-03-29 17:45           ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-30  0:43           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-30 11:02             ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-30 16:10               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-31 19:05                 ` Michael Olson
2007-03-29 14:21     ` Davis Herring
2007-03-29 18:00       ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-29 18:05         ` Davis Herring
2007-03-29 18:29           ` David Kastrup
2007-03-29 20:35             ` Davis Herring
2007-03-30 12:42           ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-29 18:16         ` John Owens
2007-03-22 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 17:36 ` John Owens
2007-04-06 18:18   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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