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Re: Why looking-at-p works?
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Why looking-at-p works? |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:09:30 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 |
On 2018-03-06, at 23:23, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Where is it documented? I could find it neither in the Elisp
>> Reference nor in let's docstring.
>
> You might need to read a tiny bit between the lines, but this
> (from (elisp) `Local Variables') pretty much suggests it:
>
> Sometimes it is useful to give a variable a "local value"-a
> value that takes effect only within a certain part of a Lisp
> program.
>
> It might have said "is in effect" instead of "takes effect".
>
> To take another example, the 'let' special form explicitly
> establishes local bindings for specific variables, which
> take effect within the body of the 'let' form.
>
> Again, "are in effect only" instead of "take effect".
>
> (Consider suggesting a doc improvement for this point -
> `M-x report-emacs-bug'. And yes, probably the doc string
> should mention "_local_ variable".)
Thanks (to you, and also to Nick) for pointing me here. I would not
call this very explicit;-). I'll try to prepare a patch for the docs
today.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl