Re: outline-regexp) using ";; *+ " for elisp code

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, May 11 2021, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> defvar-local is buffer-local variable. I would think that I could use defvar
> as the setting rather than a buffer-local variable, as the value would be the
> same for all elisp files.

=defvar= and =defvar-local= define global variables. The difference is that
variables defined with =defvar-local= become buffer-local whenever they are set
(with =setq=). But the value set with the =defvar-local= expression itself is
the default value, which is the value that applies in buffers that do not have
their own local value for said variable. (You can set a default value explicitly
with =setq-default=.)



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