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Re: Why aren't paragraph-s\(tart\|eparate\) buffer local by default?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Why aren't paragraph-s\(tart\|eparate\) buffer local by default?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:28:33 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Unfortunately, the CC Mode initialisation hadn't been done for the
> buffer.  In particular, the the two paragraph variables hadn't been made
> buffer local.  So the global values got overwritten.

Which is why I strongly recommend to always use

      (set (make-local-variable 'foo) bar)

rather than

       (make-local-variable 'foo)
       ...
       ...
       (setq foo bar)

Putting the two parts in different functions is asking for trouble,


        Stefan




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