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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





  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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