Re: Propagating local variables?

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

SM> I think most other "multi-buffer" packages tend to treat one of their
SM> buffers as a kind of "master" and have all others point to it, so they can
SM> lookup shared local variables via something like (buffer-local-value
SM> my-parent-buffer 'varname).

If you're the author of all the code that relates to that buffer, sure. But I
can't expect shell.el to reference the buffer-local `process-environment' of
my Coq buffer in order to setup the right PATH for that project-specific
sub-shell.

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