Re: Why is make-variable-buffer-local interactive?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Does it really make sense to do such changes interactively? If you
>> know what you are doing when you call this function then surely you
>> know how to do it in elisp, or?

> FWIW, I use M-x make-variable-buffer-local quite often while editing
> Perl code using cperl-mode.  I find that I quite often want different
> values of `cperl-indent-level' in different buffers.  Perhaps this means
> I should just put (make-variable-buffer-local 'cperl-indent-level) in my
> .emacs.

This is not a good use case for make-variable-buffer-local.  It's a use
case for make-local-variable (or something along these lines: maybe
there should be a M-x set-var-locally).


        Stefan