Re: emacsclient: controlling from an application?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks. I tried it though, with results as follows, which baffle me:

> It appears that the eval worked:

>       auto-save-visited-file-name's value is 
>       t
>       Local in buffer 2do.txt; global value is 
>       nil

> However, the auto-save is still behaving as if the global value were in force:

>   -rw-r--r--    1 swani    swani         819 Oct 15 14:18 #2do.txt#
>   -rw-r--r--    1 swani    swani         819 Oct 15 14:15 2do.txt

> I'll have a tilt at the other 2 ideas. Both emacs and the
> knowledgeable folks in this forum never cease to amaze me. Thanks for
> the suggestions!

The variable is consulted when visiting a file to setup some other
auto-save-related variables.  What is probably occuring is that the
variable is consulted before it is changed by the "eval: (set ...)"
cookie.


        Stefan