bug#10254: 24.0.92; Local variable bibtex-dialect has no effect

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'd expect one "typical" usage is to have (setq bibtex-dialect 'biblatex)
>> in the .emacs file somewhere.  With your new code, the effect of this
>> setq will depend on whether bibtex.el is loaded before or after
>> executing the setq.
>> That's my main source of worry.
> I don't see a "normal" usage of bibtex.el where something in the
> init file could result in an early loading of this file such that it
> could matter where in the init file this variable is set. (The code

All I'm saying is that using explicit make-local-variable calls when you
set the variable buffer-locally, instead of using a global
make-variable-buffer-local will eliminate this potential problem, no
matter how remote.


        Stefan