Re: Why is make-variable-buffer-local interactive?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Toby Allsopp wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
> > Does it really make sense to do such changes interactively? If you
> > know what you are doing when you call this function then surely you
> > know how to do it in elisp, or?
>
> FWIW, I use M-x make-variable-buffer-local quite often while editing
> Perl code using cperl-mode.  I find that I quite often want different
> values of `cperl-indent-level' in different buffers.  Perhaps this means
> I should just put (make-variable-buffer-local 'cperl-indent-level) in my
> .emacs.

Yes, probably. There is of course also make-local-variable which is less 
drastic (but does not help very much in .emacs ... ;-)