Re: 23.0.60; M-x compile gives args out of range 0, 0

[Alan Mackenzie]

Morning, Stefan!

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > There's a category of variables which are _essentially_ buffer local,
> > and nobody ever explicitly localises them first - things like
> > major-mode, mark-ring, foo-minor-mode, buffer-undo-list, .....

> It's hard to clearly define which ones are "essentially" buffer local
> and which ones aren't.

I'm not so sure about that.  Anything set by a major mode is almost
certainly such a variable.  font-lock-keywords, for example.  :-)  But
this is going towards the philosophical again.

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> So feel free to apply your patch (except for the part that changes the
> docstring, since C-h v will take care of warning the user that the
> variable is automatically made buffer-local).

DONE.

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>         Stefan

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