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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is comment-column more buffer local than comment-start?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:05:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4f9vadz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50812261006s527c21a0g6e9e84f74edc5462@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:06:34 +0100")

> Looking in newcomments.el I see
>   (make-variable-buffer-local 'comment-column)
> but nothing like that for comment-start etc. I beats my why it is this
> way. (Or is it perhaps because major mode authors should know what to
> do with comment-start?)

IIRC it's for hysterical raisins.
If you ask me, it should be the other way around: comment-column should
not be "make-variable-buffer-local" whereas comment-start should.
But it doesn't matter that much.  Just always use either `setq-default'
or (set (make-loval-variable 'foo) bar) on those vars to be clear.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-30 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26 18:06 Is comment-column more buffer local than comment-start? Lennart Borgman
2008-12-30 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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