Re: locals.texi

[Stefan Monnier]

> However, my original question was that with a variable like
> font-lock-defaults, that automatically becomes buffer-local in each buffer, I
> presumably don't need to use make-local-variable at all?

That's only true if you're 100% sure that the call to
make-variable-buffer-local will always have been made before your code runs.

In the case of font-lock-defaults it's currently true (since it's in
font-core.el which is preloaded), but it wasn't true in older Emacsen.


        Stefan