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Re: don't understand setq-default
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: don't understand setq-default |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:39:26 +0200 |
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Omar Polo wrote:
> It was a contrived example, sorry. It is 7 because inside
> the (with-current-buffer ...) I did a (setq-default my-var
> 'foo), and that affected the global value.
I understand now, I think it was a pretty good example
actually. Why don't you keep it and possibly extend it with
more examples that you might stumble upon, or if someone asks
the same thing again...
> Two more points:
>
> - re space vs tabs: I didn't want to make an argument on
> that, I was only saying that for some buffer you *may*
> prefer to have tabs and in other plain spaces, but that
> it's up to the user, buffer-local variables are away to
> implement such behaviour.
Yes, so two use cases so far, fine-tuning specific behavior
and the buffer instance metadata, if you will...
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- Re: don't understand setq-default, Emanuel Berg, 2021/04/18
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