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bug#8460: 24.0.50; Doc string of `lexical-binding'
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#8460: 24.0.50; Doc string of `lexical-binding' |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:59:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> It says that it "only applies to code evaluated by `eval-buffer' and
> `eval-region'." That is at best misleading. `C-M-x' eventually calls
> `eval-region', but a user would not guess that the doc string applies
> also to `C-M-x'. It would perhaps be better to characterize the
> situations where it does _not_ apply to code evaluation.
True. But I've, at least, changed the doc text to clarify that it
doesn't "only" apply to these functions.
> It is also misleading in that it is sufficient to visit a file, such as
> `minibuffer.el', that has "-*- lexical-binding: t -*-" in its first
> line, for the value to be non-nil and thus affect pretty much anything
> you do in that buffer.
The doc string says:
This variable is automatically set from the file variables of an
interpreted Lisp file read using `load'.
Do you have a suggestion as to how to clarify this?
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