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Re: Auto Fill Comments


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:44:38 +0100

> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 9:16 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 07:44:10PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Had thought that setq was actually a global thing, not local.
> > For local variables I was using "let" and "let*", but that seems
> > a wrong understanding.
>
> No, no. I was talking about buffer-local, i.e. bound to the
> buffer. Your local is wrt. to the code (dynamic or lexical)
>
> Buffer-local variables are global variables, as seen from the
> code's perspective.
>
> You didn't look at the docs, did you?

A problem with the docs is that it lists you so many different functions that
in some instances you are worse off than when you started.

> Cheers
>  - t
>



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