Re: goto-line-history should not be buffer local.

[Stefan Monnier]

> The point about the approach I've taken is that once a variable has
> undergone make-variable-buffer-local, it cannot be changed back to a
> non-local variable, except by restarting Emacs.

In some cases, you can unintern the symbol, but yes, it's basically
impossible :-(

> (I'm not sure whether or not this is a design bug)

I think it's just a feature noone bothered to implement.
I don't think it would require any change to the existing code.


        Stefan