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Re: Why is make-variable-buffer-local interactive?


From: Toby Allsopp
Subject: Re: Why is make-variable-buffer-local interactive?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:39:46 +1300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Toby Allsopp wrote:

>> FWIW, I use M-x make-variable-buffer-local quite often while editing
>> Perl code using cperl-mode.  I find that I quite often want different
>> values of `cperl-indent-level' in different buffers.  Perhaps this means
>> I should just put (make-variable-buffer-local 'cperl-indent-level) in my
>> .emacs.

On Fri, Mar 21 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

> Yes, probably. There is of course also make-local-variable which is
> less drastic (but does not help very much in .emacs ... ;-)

On Sat, Mar 22 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> This is not a good use case for make-variable-buffer-local.  It's a use
> case for make-local-variable (or something along these lines: maybe
> there should be a M-x set-var-locally).

Ah, thanks, make-local-variable sounds like exactly what I actually
want.  Something like set-var-locally would be pretty handy, but I can
easily define one in my .emacs.

Regards,
Toby.




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