Re: don't understand setq-default

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-04-18 17:20]:
> >> OK, that explains it, buffer local values, I can't even
> >> keep track of the buffers...
> >
> > I have used it 8 times, maybe change to setq to force
> > everywhere...
> 
> Worst thing that can happen, it will show, where I need even
> more force...
> 
> Wait, I sense there is something wrong with this thinking...
> 
> with setq, global var
> 
> with setq-default default val for var if not buffer-local
> 
> how do you look for the buffer-local var?

Here is how I have defined a buffer local variable:

(defvar-local rcd-tabulated-marked-items nil
  "Collects IDs for tabulated list modes")
(put 'rcd-tabulated-marked-items 'permanent-local t)




-- 
Jean

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