Re: Propagating local variables?

[John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>]

>>>>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm not sure what the idea means. What does "parent" mean in this context?
> Is a parent a buffer?

The parent is the buffer where you create the variables that will extend to
any children spawned "on behalf" of that buffer. So, not every buffer you
create while currently visiting that buffer, but those which match some kind
of predicate.

Thus, when editing a C file, you might want the compilation buffer, M-x shell,
M-x gdb, and a few others, to inherit the process-environment so that they are
all using the same version of the tools for a particular project, independent
of whether a dir-locals.el might be usable or not.

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