RE: why cannot set cursor-type with setq but only with setq-default??????

[Bingham, Jay]

I don't know for sure, but I think that at one time I had some logic in my 
.emacs that set buffer-local variables and as I recall it affected the 
*scratch* buffer.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Romain FRANCOISE [mailto:romain@orebokech.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:00 PM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why cannot set cursor-type with setq but only with 
setq-default??????

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I don't know what's the current buffer when ~/.emacs is executed.  A
> temp buffer, perhaps, or *scratch*.

Actually I don't think there is a buffer.  I seem to remember that the
init file is loaded using `load', and that doesn't need a buffer, it's
a built-in function.  A call to `current-buffer' would probably return
whatever buffer was active at the moment, so that would be *scratch*,
or maybe not (if the init file creates a buffer somehow, like a call to
(calendar) would).

But I'm No Expert(tm).

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