Re: Toggling buffer-local variables from Options menu on menu bar

[Nick Roberts]

Nick Roberts writes:
 > 
 > If you toggle some buffer-local variables from the menu bar e.g
 > case-fold-search, indicate-empty-lines then you change the default values and
 > not the local ones.  This is because they use menu-bar-make-toggle and means
 > that if you are in a buffer where the local value has been set e.g Info, you
 > see no difference.
 > 
 > It is a departure from behaviour in Emacs 21 and other options e.g
 > truncate-lines are changed locally on the menu bar.

Thinking further, the buffer local variables like truncate-lines should be
toggled from the mode-line, just as earlier I removed the global minor modes
(line-/column-number-mode) from the mode-line, leaving them just on the
menu bar (the converse).

Maybe the user wants to set case-fold-search for the session and the menu bar
is the right place for that, but he is likely to be confused (as I was) if
it is masked by a local value as in Info.


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