From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help needed with defadvice Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:48:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8738mo7w0j.fsf@gmail.com> <87y54g5cd6.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385218163 19067 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2013 14:49:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:49:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 15:49:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VkEWV-00032T-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:49:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkEWV-0004D4-1U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkEW7-00042f-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:49:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkEW0-0004BB-LK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkEW0-0004B6-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VkEVz-0002n7-9X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:48:55 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-174-17.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.174.17]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:48:55 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-174-17.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:48:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-174-17.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DTGoNBv8qeqO3aUlgMlSoX/xfYc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94582 Archived-At: > (,(or parent 'kill-all-local-variables)) <<<<<<<<< [...] > Does anyone know why this is there? Read the Elisp manual's description of what a major mode should do. Buffer-local variables are (in their majority) specific a particular major mode, hence they are reset when the major mode changes. Stefan