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Re: elisp from CL transition guide
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Daniel Jensen |
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Re: elisp from CL transition guide |
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Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:43:12 +0200 |
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Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:
> One thing I don't understand yet is namespaces in Elisp: if I set fill-column
> in
> a buffer (setq fill-column 80), that doesn't seem to affect fill-column in
> other
> buffers. But if I set some other variable eg (setq foo 12), foo will evaluate
> to 12 in other buffers. What would be a correct mental model for this?
Think of it as a special kind of scoping; buffer-local scoping. To read
more, see the Elisp manual in (info "(elisp) Buffer-Local Variables").
You can see whether a variable is buffer-local when you describe it with
C-h v (describe-variable).
- elisp from CL transition guide, Tamas Papp, 2007/08/16
- Re: elisp from CL transition guide, Petter Gustad, 2007/08/16
- Re: elisp from CL transition guide, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/16
- Re: elisp from CL transition guide, Daniel Jensen, 2007/08/16
- Re: elisp from CL transition guide, Pascal Bourguignon, 2007/08/16
- Re: elisp from CL transition guide, Tim Cross, 2007/08/18