Re: setting non-user variables

[Héctor Lahoz]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Héctor Lahoz" <hectorlahoz@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:26:44 +0200
> > 
> > Recently I upgraded my Emacs to version 24 (I don't like to live on
> > the edge :-) and noticed that I can't use set-variable to set
> > this buffer-local variable anymore. What should I do?
> > Why was this changed?
> > 
> > ;; before I did:
> > ;; set-variable RET mpkg-master-file RET "file.txt" RET
> > (make-variable-buffer-local
> >  (defvar mpkg-master-file))
> 
> What package defines mpkg-master-file?  I couldn't find it in packages
> bundled with Emacs.

It is my own. Not published yet.
 
> Also, what version of Emacs did you have before the upgrade?

23.4.1

So, to be clear. The variable is defined like this:

(make-variable-buffer-local
 (defvar mpkg-master-file nil
         "The path of the video associated to the current buffer"))

With 23 I could set the variable interactively, with 24 I can't.