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Re: setting of local variable in derived mode


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: setting of local variable in derived mode
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:46:48 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> > I expect this to set the tab-width in all buffers with this mode to the
>> > value 30.  However, the value stays at 8 as before.
>> What makes you think it's set at 8?  What did you do to check that?
> The output of C-h v tab-width tells me that it's value is 8.

Hmm... sorry for assuming this was the usual trivial problem.
Indeed, you bumped into another trivial problem:

  (set (make-local-variable 'tab-with) 30)
                                 ^^^^
                                   d

-- Stefan




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