From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: Uwe Siart <uwe.siart@tum.de>, 10254@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10254: 24.0.92; Local variable bibtex-dialect has no effect
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:21:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfwfet4ba.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20245.56795.932415.683301@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:45:15 -0600")
>> I'd expect one "typical" usage is to have (setq bibtex-dialect 'biblatex)
>> in the .emacs file somewhere. With your new code, the effect of this
>> setq will depend on whether bibtex.el is loaded before or after
>> executing the setq.
>> That's my main source of worry.
> I don't see a "normal" usage of bibtex.el where something in the
> init file could result in an early loading of this file such that it
> could matter where in the init file this variable is set. (The code
All I'm saying is that using explicit make-local-variable calls when you
set the variable buffer-locally, instead of using a global
make-variable-buffer-local will eliminate this potential problem, no
matter how remote.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 7:29 bug#10254: 24.0.92; Local variable bibtex-dialect has no effect Uwe Siart
2011-12-10 7:43 ` Glenn Morris
2011-12-10 9:12 ` Uwe Siart
2012-01-10 1:24 ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-10 18:33 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-11 6:41 ` Uwe Siart
2012-01-11 10:46 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-11 14:57 ` Uwe Siart
2012-01-15 9:04 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-16 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-16 22:21 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-17 5:44 ` Uwe Siart
2012-01-17 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-17 20:45 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-17 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-01-28 8:17 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-28 14:05 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-28 18:13 ` Roland Winkler
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