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Re: don't understand setq-default


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: don't understand setq-default
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:39:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Omar Polo wrote:

> The docstring seems pretty clear to me:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> (setq-default [VAR VALUE]...)
>>
>>   Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18.
>>
>> Set the default value of variable VAR to VALUE.
>> VAR, the variable name, is literal (not evaluated);
>> VALUE is an expression: it is evaluated and its value returned.
>> **The default value of a variable is seen in buffers
>> that do not have their own values for the variable.**

You are right, didn't even see that, had to check but it was
indeed there :)

OK, that explains it, buffer local values, I can't even keep
track of the buffers...

More Emacs than Lisp tho it is a sliding scale... Thanks.

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