bug#30301: 26.0.91; setting lexical-binding with C-M-x vs M-x eval-buffer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:

>>From the *scratch* buffer in emacs -q, type:
>
> (setq-local lexical-binding t) M-x eval-buffer RET
>
> Afterwards, M-: lexical-binding RET shows "nil", but I expect to see
> "t".
>
> If you instead type C-M-x in *scratch*, then M-: lexical-binding RET
> does show "t".

This is how eval-buffer is meant to work -- it'll ignore any setting of
lexical-binding and just looks for

  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

cookies and uses that instead.  This wasn't documented, though, but that
has been fixed on the trunk now.

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